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Whe did fidel castro take over cuba
established the first communist state in the western hemisphere -
China's Civil War
was a war fought between forces loyal to kumintag -
Francis Gary Powers
was an a american piolet -
Mutually assured destruction/MAD plan
is a doctrine of a military startegy and national security policy -
When did WW2 end
started september 1st 1939, to september 2nd 1945 -
United Nations
an international peacekeepping organization to which most nations in the world belong -
Churchill's iron curtain speech
It;s considereded one of the vollley's in the announcing of the cold war -
Truman Doctrine
president truman established that the us would provide political economical an military assistance on all democratc nations -
Berlin Airlift
was the first major international crises of the cold war -
Marshall Plan
was a american initnaive to aid europe -
Nato
is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the north atlantic treary -
USSR,s first atomic bomb test
its code name was the first lighting -
Korean War
a conflict between north korea and south korea lasting form 1950 to 1953 -
H-Bomb
is a nuclear weapon that uses energy form a primary nuclear fission -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
was the 34th president of the united states from 1953 to 1961 and was a 5 star general for the us in the world war 2 -
Stalin's death
was the leader of the soviet union form the mid 1920's to hisa death in 1953 -
End of the Korean war
was fought between north and south korea -
SEATO
is an international organization for the southeast asia -
Warsaw pact
was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of central and eastern europe in existence of the cold war -
Vietnam War
was a 19 year war -
Eisenhower Doctrine
was a speech by president dwight david eisenhower with a special message to congress involving situation in the middle east -
Sputnik
was the first artifical earht satellite -
John F, Kennedy
was the 35th president of the united states -
Bay of Pigs
was a failed military invasion of cuba -
Berlin Wall
was an area that divided berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
a 13 day confrontation between the us and soviet union -
When was JFK shot and killed
was assainated at 12:30 pm on friday afternoon -
Lyndon Johnson
was the 36th president receeding john f kenedy -
Richard Nixon
was the 37th president of the us -
Salt - first Strategic plan limitations treaty
the us learned that the soviet union emarked on a massisve misslie -
NASA's first moon traveling
it was kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is over -
Gerald Ford
was the 38th president of the united states -
Jimmy Carter
was the 39th president of the united states -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
lasted 9 years part of the cold war -
Miracle on ice
is the name for mens ice hockey game in the winter olympics -
U.S. Boycott of the summer olympics
was one of the actions us did to protest the soviet union invadig afghanistan -
Ronald Reagan
was the 40th president of the united states -
STAR WARS- strategic defense initiative
was used to ground base and space based systems to protect form nuclear bombs
