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Truman doctrine
U.S.A Would provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blocked
Soviets Block entrance to Berlin cut off Allied supplies to West Berlin -
Nato
is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. -
Arms Race
The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
Warsaw pact
The wasaw pact was a military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe with Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
Hungary Revolution
Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian Revolution. The Hungarians wanted to end Soviet rule in their country, and Hungarian civilians fought Soviet militants in the streets. -
Fidel castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008 -
U-2 Incident
U-2 American spy plane shot down by USSR. -
Eisenhower
Eisenhower was an American politician and Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. -
Bay of Pigs
Failed military invasion of Cuba on 17 April 1961. -
Berlin Wall Built
In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR placed missiles in cuba ships carrying misssiles headed for cuba -
John F Kennedy.
was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Vietnamization
The Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S -
Nikita Khrushchev
was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. -
Detente
Is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam divided into 2 states
North Vietnam- communist
South vietnam- Democratic -
Glasnost
Freedom of expression for Soviet citizens eased harsh tratment of opponents of Soviet System -
Parestroika
Gradual changing of Soviet economy allowing private enterprise dismantling of national bureaucrazy -
Berlin Wall Torn Down
The Berlin Wall,The Fall of the Wall was On November 9, 1989 -
Reunification of Germany
The reunification of germany after 45 years
