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Red Scare
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government. This "scare" was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian revolution.
End date: 1920 -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledged American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats". The doctrine originated with primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war.
End Date: 1989 -
Marshall Plan
For the United States, the Marshall Plan provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in western europe. It is significant as it provide needed capital and materials than enables the Europeans to rebuild the continent's economy
End date: 1951 -
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
The Berlin blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin, which laid entirely inside the Russian-occupied East Germany.
End date : May 12 1949 -
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, 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.
End date: july-17-1975 -
Suez Canal
Suez Canal is an artificial waterway running north to south across the isthmus of suez in northeastern egypt. It was built by Ferdinand de Lesseps. it was important because it was a significant route for energy,commodities, consumer goods and componentry from Asia and the Middle East to Europe.
End date: 1969 -
U-2 Incident
The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.
End date: May-1-1960 -
Berlin wall
Berlin wall was created 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.
End Date: 1989 -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion happens when a CIA-financed and trained group of Cuban refugees land in Cuba and attempts to end the communist government. This is important because it showed Russia and Cuba that America would not tolerate communism, and that they would fight to keep it at the bay.
End date: April-20- 1961 -
Cuban Missile crisis
The Cuban Missile crisis 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.
End date: November-20-1962 -
Non- Proliferation Treaty
A multilateral treaty signed in 1968 which aims to control the spread of nuclear weapons. Countries that had nuclear weapons could not share them and countries that did not have them could not receive them but Pakistan,Israel and iran did not sign the treaty.
End date: 1970 -
Perestroika and Glasnost
Perestroika is a changing economic policy to allow more competition and incentives to produce goods. Changing the Government.Controlled economy that had existed since Stalin. Glasnost is an openness in Government, Gorbachev thought people should be allowed within reason to say what they believe in with more open debates.
End date: 1991