cold war jezebel calderon 7th period

  • Venona papers

    Venona papers
    They were papers naming individuals that were involved with soviet intelligence. 3,000 messages were at least partially decrypted & translated.
  • Containment policy

    Containment policy
    Its a foreign policy adopted by Harry Truman. Communist government will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    President Harry Truman, came up with doctrine that U.S would provide political, military & economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritian forces.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    American initiative was called to aid Western Europe, US gave them $13 billion to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of world war II.
  • Berlin Blockade & airlift

    Berlin Blockade & airlift
    The Soviet Union & Western Allied powers were involved. It was an international crisis arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-world war 2.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    This war was fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by United States , and the communist democratic peoples republic of korea , began in 1950. North Korea invaded South koreaa.
  • Rosenberg Trial

    Rosenberg Trial
    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were indicated for conspiracy to transmit classififed military into soviet Union, they knew top secret data on nuclear weapons so they were sentenced to death.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion
    1400 cubans exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the bay of pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
  • Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong
    He was a chairman, chinese communist, founding father of the peoples republic of china. he governed as the chairman of the communist party of china.