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Arms Race
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Communist
a person who supports or believes in the principles of communism. -
Democractic
relating to or supporting democracy or its principles. -
Truman Doctrine
gave 400 million dollars in economic and military aid to turkey and greece form econ -
Marshall Plan
euopean recovery plan 16 countries recived aid, 13billion dollars to rebuild west europe offered to soviet union and they said no form econ -
Berlin Airlift
stalin cutoff supplies into west berlin -
NATO
national atlantic treaty org alliance to suppoort one anothers military -
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Korean War
also is called the forgotten war where North Korea foght by south korea -
SEATO
south eastern asian treaty org was to help prevent communsiom -
Vietman War
The Vietnam War also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 -
Eisenhower Doctrine
offered econ and military aid support if Communism threatened middle east -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. height 11.81 ft. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
John F Kennedy
JFK was shot and killed was shot and killed in dallas texas in 1963 -
lyndon B Johnson
took jfk's place after his death and increased troops in south vietnam -
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin incident also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. -
My Lai Massacure
The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968. -
Nixon's Election
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. -
Iron Curtain
the national barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
