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The Cold War beginns
After WW2 USA and USSR were the two most powerful nations in the world. The cold war was about who can be the ruler of the wold. Both nations had a strong enough military and government. -
USA announced Truman Doctrine
The Truman doctrine said that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
Communists seize power in Poland.
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"Berlin Airlift" beginnes
West Germany and other Nations started sending Airplanes over the East side of Berlin. They dropped care packages filled with chololate, soap or other specalities form West Germany out of airplanes. -
NATO formed
The NATO is an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression. -
New Military Alliences
NATO was formed as biggest Allience.
Involved: Belgium,Louxembourg, France,Germany, Netherlands, GB, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal and Iceland -
The Korean War
Soviet-backed North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Soviets launch "Sputnik 1"
"Sputnik 1" was the first artificial Earth satellite. USA raced who's Rocket can be up there first.... USA lost. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro and the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista set up a Soviet support. President Kennedy invented a secret plan to invade Cuba. -
Soviets ans East Gemrmans built the Berlin Wall
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Bay of Pigs
The Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute as US was not in war with Cuba then. -
George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany
George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany. -
The Arms Race
Soviet Union set off fist atomic bombe in 1949, in the 1950 both nations created a hydrogen bomb.
USA and Soviet Union now both worked on building up weapons against each other. -
Todays Impact
- NATO continues working today and is one of the most important "squads" that helps with international trouble.
- Nuclear weapons (first invented and usedin WW2)
