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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. ... More generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations thought to be threatened by Soviet communism. It finished in 1952. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. ... In addition to economic redevelopment, one of the stated goals of the Marshall Plan was to halt the spread communism on the European continent. It's finished June 30, 1952. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States of America, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II. It finished on July 20, 1969. -
U-2 Incident
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk. It shot down on May 1, 1960. -
Bay of pigs invasion
In 1961 the United States sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government. The invasion is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in the Americas. It finished on 17-20 April 1962 -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. It divided the city of Berlin into two physically and ideologically contrasting zones. It finished November 9, 1989. -
Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. It ended on March 1970. -
Perestroika and Glasnost
Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform. It ended in 1990.