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Red Scare
During the Red Scare , many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who espoused communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology. end in 1920 -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American support for democracies against authoritarian threats. More generally, the Truman Doctrine involved American support for other nations threatened by Moscow. It became the basis of American foreign policy and led, in 1949, to the formation of Nato. Truman Doctrine end in 1952. -
Marshall plan
US sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 countries in Western and Southern Europe in order to create stable in which democratics could survive and it ended on December 1951. -
Berlin blockade/airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked Western Allies' rail, road, and canal access to the Western controlled sectors of Berlin. I end in 12 may 1949. -
Space Race
1953-1957 the U.S. Soviet war had worked its way into the fabric of everyday life in both countries, fueled by the arms race and the growing threat of nuclear weapons and counter espionage between the two countries. War in Korea and a clash of words and ideas carried out in the media. Those tensions would continue throughout the Space Race Ended on july 17,1975. -
U-2 Incident
The United States' U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while conducting aerial reconnaissance inland. Powers parachuted to the ground and was captured. that was heading to the surface. Air missile current Yekaterinburg after being hit by a Sverdlovsk, Pakistan and crashed near Peshawar, the plane had taken off from Francis Gary Powers. Piloted by American pilot Soviet territory. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that surrounded West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. The construction of the Berlin Wall was started by the GDR government on August 13, 1961. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict a when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments. of nuclear missiles in Cuba Crisis is end of October 29 1962. -
Non Proliferation
The Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or NPT is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and promote the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.Between 1965 and 1968 the treaty was negotiated by the Eighteen Nations Disarmament Committee a United Nations-sponsored organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. -
Perestroika and Glasnost
Glasnost was a policy of the Soviet government that allowed free discussion of social problems. Perestroika. a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved the restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society. ended 1991.