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The Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman declared it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism, leaders ,ect. Harry Truman initial request was specifically for $400 million to assist both Greece and Turkey, which Congress approved. -
The Marshall Plan
The war-torn nations of Europe faced famine and economic crisis in the wake of WW II, the United States proposed to rebuild the continent in the interest of political stability and a healthy world economy. -
Creation of NATO
It's an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
The Korean War
It was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The military alliance of Western capitalists made Stalin anxious. Stalin believed that they were planning to gang up on the Soviet Union, he had to create a protective alliance with his satellites, just like with Comecon and the Marshall Plan. -
Vietnam War
military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 -
Bay of Pigs
It was an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
The Berlin Wall was the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961-1989 and the symbolic boundary between the democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side of the war, and the United States on the other side, in October 1962. It is one of the major confrontations during the Cold War -
Olympic Rivalry: 1972 basketball game
This edition of the tournament marked the first time the United States did not win a gold medal since the sport's inception into the Olympic Games in 1936, and ended up with the silver instead in a controversial final match against the Soviet Union. -
USSR invades Afghanistan
An Under cover of an ongoing Soviet military buildup and there was heavily-armed elements of a Soviet airborne brigade were airlifted into Kabul,Afghanistan.The Russians claimed that they had been invited in by the Amin government and that they were not invading the country. They claimed that their task was to support a legitimate government and that the Mujahideen were no more than terrorists. -
1980 Olympic Hockey game
Miracle on Ice was the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, NY, on Friday, February 22. The United States team, led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet team, who had won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament since 1954. -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
factors descibed above led to mass migration from East Berlin and East Germany, producing a large labour supply shock in the West. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The immediate cause of the Soviet collapse was economic, as the Soviet Union lost the arms race and international competition with the West. The United States was able to profit from its imperialist exploitation of other countries, while socialism could only lose economically in that competition
