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Iron Curtain speech
This was a speech that Winston Churchill delivered in Missouri stating “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” This was significant because the Soviet Union thought of this term to describe their mind set after the war. This was the start of the Cold War Iron Curtian
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Turman Doctrine
President Truman creates the Truman Doctrine that states the United States will provide political, military and economic support to countries that are fighting against communist country. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the offical European Recovery Program (ERP). The U.S. gave European counrties aid in order to rebuild their economy after the war. This was a prevention plan in order to stop communism to reach Western Europe. It also remove trade barriers and help modernize industries. -
Formation of West Germany
the French, United States ,and Uk slit up Germany in order to form a West Germany. This was the beginning of the distance relationship beween US and Russia -
Berlin Block
Russina did not like the idea of West Germany. Russia decided to block all trade routes. This cause West Germany to stop receiving anytime of goods. The US and UK had to intervene and give food to West Germany everyday via helicoptor. This became known as the Berlin Airlift. -
NATO is formed
THe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed with Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This was formed to protect and keep the peace in these countries. One major agreement that NATO has is that if a counrty attacks any of these countries, you attack all. This basically means that is Russia decides to attack the US, these countries will defend the US. -
Berlin blockade ends
After a year of blocking the trades routes, Russina finally allowed transports goods to enter Berlin. -
McCarthyism
Senator Joe McCarthy started to investagate/interrogate anyone who he thought was involved in communisim. He proclaims that over 200 indivdual in the State department were members of the communist party. This became known as the red scare -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea. North Korea was a communist country. The US got involved and defended South Korea because they did not want to see a communist win and was afraid that communism was going to spread. Russia supplies materials to North Korea. China also helps defend North Korea -
Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact was Soviet Union version of NATO. Soviet Union alliances included Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was ultimately a fight to see if Vietnam was going to be Communist or not. USSR supported the North Vietnam while the U.S. aided the South. This was a unfavored war in the U.S, The US feared if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would also fall to Communism.The U.S. leaves on April 30, 1975. -
Space Race
Space race was a period from 1957–1972 were the U.S. and USSR are in constant competion to see who can go to the space first. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay Of Pigs invasion is when the U.S wanted to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba becasue Fidek Castro became a communist nation. The CIA help finance the attack by training Cuban exiles and executing a plan. Even though the U.S did not want to get involved with Cuban affiars.The U.S. thought this was be a easy battle but to the U.S schock, they failed miserable. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
One of the U.S. spy plane saw some unusual construction from the USSR on nuclear missile base in Cuba. This was the closest U.S and Russia came to in having a nuclear war. U.S, Russia and Cuba all were prepare to enter war. To prevent a devastating battle, President JFK and Premier Nikita Khrushche came to an agreement. On October 28th Russia removed their weapons and United States agreed not to invade Cuba. -
Land on the moon
Neil Armstrong, American citizen, was the first person to walk on the moon. This was the moment were U.S believed they have won the space race. -
SALT
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) was a conference that the Soviet Union and U.S. talked about weapon control. They came to an agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles. President Nixon and Secretary Leonid Brezhnev were involved. -
Fall of the USSR
The USSR finally fell becasue 11 out of 15 Soviet republic did not wish to be part of the USSR. Those Soviet republic want to be part of a commonwealth. During this time President Mikhail Gorbachev implemented radical reforms that the other Soviet republicans did not like which push for separation.
