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Truman Doctrine
Truman established the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in oorder to prevent its spread.
Harry S. Truman gave a speech in 1947 saying that the U.S. would provide government aid to countries resisting communist takeovers.
April 12, 1945- January 20,1953 -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic.
In 1961, the SED began adding additional obstacles to the border, expanding the Wall into a complex multi-layered system of barriers. The Berlin Wall would prevent the West from having further influence on the East, stop the flow of migrants out of the communist sector.
May 2, 1945 -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan: Propossed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastuctrure of postwar Europe.
President Harry Truman sent Congress a message that followed Marshall's ideas to provide economic aid to europe.
The Marshall plan happen fanned by the fear of Communist expansion and the rapid deterioration of Europe economies.
Provided markets for American goods.
Marshall Plan, (April 1948- December 1951) -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin Airlift allowed the United States and the United Kingdom to respond to Stalin's aggressive blockade of Berlin without going to war.
Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin.
Competing occupation policies and rising tensions between Western powers and the Soviet Union.
The main goal of the Berlin Blockade was to force the Allies to abandon the city.
(26 June 1948 to 30 September 1949) -
Red Scare
Red Scare was rounding up & deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government. A Red Scare is a form of public hysteria provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, & communism.
A period during the early 20th-century history of the U.S.A marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism & anarchism, due to real & imagined events.
1919-1920 -
Space race
The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the United States and the Soviet Union, aiming to show superiority in spaceflight.
The space race played a significant part in the Cold War as the Americans and Soviets competed to prove their technological and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to put a human into space. From beginning to end, the world's attention was captivated by this contest for dominance.
July 17, 1975 -
U-2 incident
The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The U-2 provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance, day or night, in direct support of U.S. and allied forces.
U.S and the Soviet Union began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the U.S, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.
May 1, 960 -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay os Pigs invasion was an abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 15,00 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro.
It started by three U.S. made airplanes piloted by Cubans bombed Cuban air bases. And it ended by being defeated within 2 days by Cuban armed forces under the direct command of Castro.
The ultimate goals was the overthrow of Castro and the establishment of a non-communist government friendly to the United States.
April 17, 1961- April 20, 1961 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous confrontation between the United Sattes and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
In October 1962, and American U-2 spy plane secretly photographednuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. Cuban Missile Crisis happened because the president Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles.
October 16, 1962- October 29, 1962 -
Non-Proliferation Treaty
The NPT is a landmark international treaty, which objective was to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons & weapons technology. The NPT treaty was an agreement by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology.
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Perestrokia and Glasnost
perestrokia and Glasnost is a soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. Perestroika was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Glasnost means openness, it was a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities.
The government allowed churches to open. It released dissidents from prison and allowed the publication of books by previously banned authors.
1985-1991