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Truman Doctrine
To stop the expansion of communism. Economic aid to those who resist communism. Also, start of containment policy and Cold War. -
Moltav plan
soviets plan for economic aid for countrys and was to rebuild eourpe econime and tacking countrys as there own. soviet uniion marsall plan -
Marshall Plan
created to help eastern eoupe econimie and was sent to countrys that resisted communisum. purpouse was to stop the spread of communisum -
NATO
north atlantic traety orginization provided aginst communisum and from the sovit union -
Berlin Airlift
Soviets blockade against own Eastern Berlin from moving out into Western Berlin. US sent food and supplies to Eastern Berlin. Soviets stopped the blockade because the US was successful. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb
The soviet union successfully created and tested it's first atomic bomb named "first lightning". Soviet spies relayed information from the United States to build this and increased fears within America about soviet spies. Now, the two superpowers in the world have weapons of mass destruction. -
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Korean War
War between North and South Korea. Communists with Soviet Union and China backed the North and USA backed the South. It was a stalemate -> Now we have North and South Korea -
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Veitnam War
conflict between communist north veritam vs south vetnam backed by the US 50,000 US troops killed North vetnam sufferd 1 millon killed and for the south 200,000 south vinam killed. US were not prepared and backed out and north vetnam won the war. came with TANKS -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
US and USSR almost went to war over soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
China Atomic Bomb
china sind a secreat agrement with soviets trading nuclear materials for instruction to creat them. another communist power now has atomic boab. -
Evil Empire Speech
Speech delivered by Ronald Reagon to National association Evangelicals. Referred to the Soviets as an evil empire. Direct message from the US to the Soviet Union that they were the reason why the world had so many problems. -
Berlin wall
wall came down because a bureaucratic accident that fell away and created a revolution that led the soviet led communist tedering on break of colaps and help define a new world order -
Fall of USSR
was proccess of inturnal strugles of power. desablizt communist contral. Gorbachov allowed free elections within system thus leading to less communit power