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Domino Theory
The Domino theory was made by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. This theory stated that if the communist government took over a country there was a chance that it would lead to other countries becoming a communist states. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a metaphorical and physical wall separating two ideologies, including communism and capitalism. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was aid from the US while the Russians blocked all roads and exports from berlin. -
Novikov telegram.
the Soviet ambassador to the USA, Nikolai Novikov, warned that the USA had emerged from World War Two economically strong and bent on world domination -
The Molotov Plan
This was a response to American Truman Doctrine. This plan says that the Soviet Union will provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned with the soviet union. This was made shortly after the Truman Doctrine. -
Truman Doctrine.
The Truman Doctrine was a statement saying that it would support any country falls under communism by the USSR. This was to contain communism. -
Korean War.
The USSR invaded Korea in hopes of entangling the United States in a costly war in East Asia and distracting America's attention away from the East. -
NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
NATO's purpose was to keep peace in Europe. The nations believed that this was needed because of the everlasting effects brought on it by WW2. -
Cultural Revolution
The goal of the Cultural Revolution in China was to keep the government strong and remove any traditions or cultures that were seen as harmful to their ideals. -
Vietcong
Vietcong was the communist guerrilla this was a movement in Vietnam that was against the South Vietnamese. The US Supported North Vietnam -
Warsaw pact
The Warsaw pact was a defense treaty between the soviet union and seven other soviet satellite states in central and eastern Europe. -
Space Race
The Space race was a conflict between the russins and the Americans. This race was the first nation to launch a working satellite into space. Russia succeded in this race and the satellite was named Sputnik 1. This motivated the U.S. to come back even stronger, leading to the moon landing. -
Sputnik Launch
Sputnik 1 was the first satellite in space. Launched by the Russians this motivated the Americans to work even harder to get the first man on the moon. -
M.A.D ( Mutual assured destruction)
Mutual Assured Destruction also known as M.A.D. This was told if one country uses nuclear weapons on another country if is for sure that said the targeted country will fight back with its own nuclear weapons. Both countries will be destroyed. -
War on Guatemala
In the war of Guatemala, Guatemala fought against rebels named Guerilla. These rebels were fighting for civil rights. The US provides upwards of 6 million dollars to aid Guatemalan armed forces under the MAP ( Military Assistance Program) along with nearly 11 million dollars of American military equipment. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict between the United States a the Soviet Union in a close war over the presence of nuclear ballistic missiles in Cuba. This was a problem because the soviet's missiles were not accurate enough to be shot from Russia, and due to this, they tried to export missiles to Cuba in case Americans started a war so they would have a clear shot at the Americans. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was the confrontation between the US and the USSR about the USSR secretly moving missiles to Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy
JFK was America's 35th president. John F Kennedy fought in ww2 in August 1, in 1943. -
Operation Rolling Thunder.
Operation Rolling Thunder was the barrage on South Vietnam via jets. During this, the US hoped that Ho Chi Minh would abandon his ambition to take over South Vietnam. -
Vietnamization
was a strategy that aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam war by moving all military responsibilities to south Vietnam. -
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of Vietnam's independent act from 1941. This was a successful campaign led by himself. He was the president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969 -
First man on the moon.
The first man on the moon was named Neil Armstrong. This advancement was made by the Americans. -
Kikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev was the first secretary of the communist party. Nikita took over office after Stalin died in 1953. -
Truman
Truman was the 33rd president of the United States he led his country through World War 2 -
Star wars.
The SDI proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks. this was also known as star wars because of the space theme and missiles. -
The invasion of Guatemala
The war started because of Russia's seizing control over some of the biggest cites in Afghanistan. -
Mujahideen
members of a number of guerrilla groups operating in Afghanistan during the Afghan War -
Chernobyl
Chornobyl was an accident at a nuclear plant that left 31 dead and is still seen as radioactive to this day. -
Common Wealth of independent states
The Common Wealth of Independent States is an intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. This organization was to focus on cooperation on political, economical, environmental, humanitarian, and cultural and other issues between a number of former Soviet Republics. -
Richard nixon
Nixon was the president for America he was the 37th president.