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Cold War

By Enkhmend10

  • Red scare

    Red scare
    The Red Scare was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. Communists were often referred to as “Reds” for their allegiance to the red Soviet flag.The Red Scare led to a range of actions that had a profound and enduring effect on U.S. government and society.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats.
    The Truman Doctrine arose from president Harry S. Truman.
    The Truman Doctrine was invented to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during The Cold War.
    The Truman Doctrine ended in 1952.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The Marshall plan was a U.S program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.
    President Harry Truman signed on the Marshall Plan and distributed 16 European nations.
    The Marshall Plan was invented due to the slow progress of Europe's economic development following WWII.

  • Berlin Blockade/airlift

    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 the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.

  • The Space Race

    The Space Race
    During the cold war space became another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system.

  • U-2 Spy Incident

    U-2 Spy Incident
    An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers (1929-77). Confronted with the evidence of his nation’s espionage, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) was forced to admit to the Soviets that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. Officials at the U.S. The State Department and the CIA had attempted to remove Castro. The CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over. However, the invasion was doomed from the start.

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    The 155-kilometer-long Berlin Wall, which cut through the middle of the city center, surrounded West Berlin. The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    During the Cuban Missile 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.President John F. Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S was prepared to use military if necessary.

  • Perestroika and Glasnost

    Perestroika and Glasnost
    Perestroika (“restructuring” in Russian) refers to a series of political and economic reforms meant to kick-start the stagnant 1980s economy of the Soviet Union. Its architect, President Mikhail Gorbachev, oversaw the most fundamental changes to his nation’s economic engine and political structure since the Russian Revolution of 1917. But the suddenness of these reforms, coupled with growing instability both inside and outside the Soviet Union, would contribute to the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

  • Non-Proliferation Treaty

    Non-Proliferation Treaty
    The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was an agreement signed in 1968 by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology. The NPT is a multilateral treaty aimed at limiting the spread of nuclear weapons including three elements: (1) non-proliferation, (2) disarmament, and (3) peaceful use of nuclear energy.