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Berlin Airlift
When Berlin Germany was split in two, the Soviet Union had the west part of Berlin. The west was a hostage to the USSR, no supplies could get in to that part of the city so the U.S. and other countries lined up in the air to drop off supplies -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman asked Congress for $400 million in economic adn military support for Greece and Turkey,also he declared that the U.S. should support free peoples through out the world (got this out of the textbook) -
The Marshall Plan
Was named after S.o.S George Marshall. it was to give away 1.25billion dollars. USSR rejected the Marshall plan -
Creation of NATO
couldnt find any information but i know that the Us contributed some amount of money -
Korean War
The U.S. tried to get rid of communism in Korea as well but they ended up spliting the country in half and in north korea people are starving -
Vietnam war
US entered the Vietnam war to end communism and to get rid of the Vietcong -
USSR launch Sputnik 1
This began the space race between the USA and the USSR -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
Some sort of pact -
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro, a dictator of Cuba drives his gureilla army into Havanna. Kennedy trains the Cuban exiles and sends them back to Cuba to over through Castro. The exiles failed big time. -
Fidel Castro comes to Power in Cuba
Castro was sworn in as the Priminester of Cuba. later he took things into his own hands and became a Dictator and i think he is on his death bed -
Berlin wall goes up
Russia devided Berlin in half. there is the west and east berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crissis
During the space race, Russia gave Cuba some missiles to launch at the United States for some reason i forgot what, since Cuba is 90 miles away from the U.S. -
6 Day War
A war that lasted litterally 6 days when I think Jordan and some other countries tried to take over Israel -
German Reunification
germany was once again back together as a country -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Russia's Dictator was unstable to manage a huge country so the USSR collasped
