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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
Buffer State of the USSR
In 1945 the Communist world was limited to the Soviet Union, it rapidly spread to Central and Eastern Europe, forming a protective buffer zone for the USSR. Ended in 1949 -
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Atomic Bomb
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
U.S. aid to Greece and Turkey
On March 12, 1947, Truman appeared before a joint session of Congress. In his eighteen-minute speech, he stated: ... In May 1947, two months after Truman's request, a large majority of Congress approved $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
Congress overwhelmingly passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, and on April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the act that became known as the Marshall Plan. Over the next four years, Congress appropriated $13.3 billion for European recovery. -
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Berlin Airlift
The End of the Blockades it was clear that the Soviet blockade of West Berlin had failed. It had not persuaded West Berliners to reject their allies in the West, nor had it prevented the creation of a unified West German state. -
NATO Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
USSR Get Atomic Bomb
“Fat Man” atomic bomb later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and everything the Los Alamos scientists knew about the hypothesized hydrogen bomb. -
Communist win China
China's communist party, led by Mao Zedong, finally prevailed against the Nationalists and assumed power #Domino Theory #Containment Theory -
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Korean War
The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. -
Coup in Iran
The overthrow of the democractically electd prime minister -
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Coup in Guatemala
The operation carried out by the US Central intelligence agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemala president and ended the Guatamalan revolution -
Warsaw Pact Formed
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
Beginning of Troops in Vietnam
The U.S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam. This was part of the domino theory of a wider containment policy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism. -
Suez Canal Crisis
International crisis in the Middle East. Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal. The canal had been owned by the Suez Canal Company, which was controlled by French and British interests. #Deterrence -
Hungary Rebellion
Hungarian Uprising was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Ended November 10th, 1956 -
Sputnik
The purpose of Sputnik 1 was that to beat the US into space. Although, USSR beat them to it. -
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. Ended October 28th, 1962 #Mutally Assured Destruction -
China explodes atomic bomb
China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb. The Chinese people had finally developed their own nuclear technology. #brinksmanship -
Coup in Chile
Chile's armed forces stage a coup d'état against the government of President Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected Marxist leader in Latin America. ... He became a Marxist activist and worked as a doctor and in 1933 was a founding member of Chile's Socialist Party. -
End of troops in Vietnam
Ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Communist Angola
The MPLA won out, and Angola was a communist republic until the broad collapse of most communist -
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Soviet invade Afghanistan
At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
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War in El Salvador
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition or "umbrella organization" of several left-wing groups. -
Evil Empire Speech
With the Soviet Union and the United States at odds over nuclear weapons and politics, the whole world was really, really nervous. But Ronald Reagan believed that by spreading the love and sharing American traditions and morals, we might just make it after all. -
Star Wars (S.D.I.)
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Iran Contra Affair
A political scandal. Reagan administration: senior Reagan Administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo in hopes of securing the release of hostages and allowing U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. #Detente -
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Fall of the USSR
The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
