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Berlin Blockade
One of the first major international crisis during the cold war. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was cargo planes delivered food, fuel, and other essential goods to the people of West Berlin. After the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift kept the Berliners from starving. -
Formation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, AKA the Atlantic Alliance. Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Chinese Civil War
The United States supported Jiang Jieshi instead of Mao Zedong because he was anti communist. Mao Zedong relied on the peasants becase they would make good soldiers. -
National Security Council Report- NSC-68
The National Securtiy Council Report (NSC 68) involved a decision to make Containment against global Communist expansion a high priority. It was one of the most significant statements of American policy in the Cold War -
Korean War
The Korean war was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union.Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War -
President Truman fires General MacArthur
U.S fired General MacArthur because General MacArthue publicly announced that he disagreed with Trumans plans for Korea. When Truman (who didn't want to start a nuclear WW3) rejected the use of nuclear weapons in the Korean War altogether,MacArthur argued with Truman about it, so Truman fired him. -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliance. was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist States of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
