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House of un-american activities committee
investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities like finding communist spies during the cold war -
Truman doctrine
American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War -
National security act
was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II -
Berlin airlift
This was an attempt to push the people in soviet controlled Berlin to the allied part and it raised tension s and could've cause conflict -
Marshall plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe to prevent the spread pf communism in the western European countries during the cold war -
Korean war
The split up nation of Korea is thrown into war and the UN and china got involved and it was a fight against communism before the cold war -
Brinkmanship
Eisenhower used this tactic during the cold war to prevent war -
warsaw pact
eastern communist countries alliance during the cold war -
Interstate highway system
This was an interstate system like the autobahn for military defense to get to each coast faster -
Eisenhower doctrine
U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression -
U-2 incident
An american U-2 spy plane crashed in the Soviet union and stopped a treaty to decline arms and this event caused greater tensions -
bay of pigs
Failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro who was a communist leader and was supported by the USSR and this made tension s worse during the cold war -
Berlin wall
This was the wall that separated east and west Germany and was a physical representation of the iron curtain during the cold war and it caused a lot of tensions. -
cuban Missile crisis
This is the closest to conflict during the cold war due to the closeness of the soviet warheads to the us -
Nuclear test ban treaty
bans testing of nuclear weapons over ground during the cold war to ease tensions
