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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). -
Yalta conference
In Febuary 1945, Roosevelt met with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta to work out the future of Germany and Poland. -
Harry Truman
WW2 ends with Truman's decision to drop atomic bomb on Japan -
Harry Truman
W. Churchill claimed an Iron Curtain has descended upon Europe -
Harry Truman
Truman Doctrine aid is aimed at saving Greece and Turkey -
Truman Doctrine
Gave $400 Million in economic & military aid to Greece & Turkey.
To fend off communism and stay free. -
The Marshall Plan
European Recovery Plan
16 countries received aid.
$13 Billion in aid given to rebuild Western Europe.
Offered to Eastern Europe but Soviet Union said NO! -
Draft lottery
The draft had been seen as unfair to blacks and the poor new draft lottery ended racial and economic discrimination -
Berlin Airlift
Stalin cut off supplies into W. Berlin
US airlift food and supplies into the city
Lasted 11 months
Stalin reopened supply lines -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Collective Security
Alliance to support one another militarily
Had to be a democracy -
Harry Truman
The United Nations is created -
SEATO
South East Asian Treaty Organization
US + 7 other nations
To prevent the Domino Theory -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Like the Truman Doctrine but for the Middle East
Offered economic & military support if communism threatened the Middle East -
Alliance for Progress
Foreign Aid Program
Offered economic & technical assistance to Latin American countries.
US invested $12 billion -
Peace Corps
Program of volunteer assistance to developing nations of Asia, Africa, & Latin America.
By 1968, 35,000 volunteers had helped in 60 nations -
John F Kennedy
Soviets began constructing Berlin Wall -
John F Kennedy
Bay of Pigs invasion by 1,500 CIA trained Cuban exiles in attempt to overthrow Castro -
Berlin wall
This wall had 45,000 sections of reinforced concrete each section 3.9ft long, 12ft tall and weighed 3 tons -
John F Kennedy
John F Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas Texas -
Paris peace talks
1972 Nixon was reelected and a cease-fire was negotiated Jared 27th 1973 Paris peace talks conclude calling for an end to us involvement in the release of prisoners of War South Vietnam us fight its own fight now
