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Truman Doctorine
Truman's Idea to stop communism. -
Marshall Plan
plan to give Europe money to recover from WW2 -
NATO
Treaty Alliance between north America and Europe -
comecon
Economic organization started by the USSR -
Dwight Eisenhower
President during Cold war -
Stalin death
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Warsaw Pact
The treaty between USSR and its several Satellite states -
Sputnik
First Satellite -
Krushchev
Man who led USSR through part of the Cold War -
Krushchev
premier of USSR -
Explorer 1
First US Satellite -
John F Kennedy
President during Cold War -
U2
Spy plane flown over Russia -
Berlin Wall Built
Wall dividing USSR and Germany. -
Yuri Gagarin
First human in outer space -
Bay of Pigs
Failed Invasion of Cuba. -
Fidel Castro
Ruthless leader of Cuba -
Tsar Bomb
Largest nuclear bomb in history -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Cuba has possession of nuclear weapons. -
JFK assasination
the day that John F Kennedy was killed -
Vietnamization
Richard Nixons Idea to get out of the Vietnam war -
Esienhower death
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detente
The easing of relations between the US and USSR -
Perestroika
Russian plan toward a more democratic state -
Glasnost
The first step to making the USSR a democracy -
Berlin Wall Torn Down
The dividing wall is torn down -
End of USSR
