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Cold War
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Armistice
Signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany that called for a ceasefire effective. -
superpowers
The devastation of Europe and Asia in 1945 left two states with inordinate influence on the future course of international affairs – the United States and the Soviet Union. -
United Nations
Is an intergovernmental organization to promote international cooperation and a replacement for the ineffect League of Nations. -
The Truman Doctrine
Truman asked for $400 million dollars for military to help Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall plan
Was known as the recovery act of 1948 that proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of the post war in Europe. -
The Berlin Blockade
When U.S plans took food water and medical supplies to Berlin. -
NATO
To protect western Europe from Soviet attacks. -
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the U.S senator at first he was known as a hero then he started to accuses everyone of being a communist but then everyone started to accuse everyone of communism but when he accused the military that was the last straw he was then fired from office. -
38th parrallel
When south and North Korea got into a war and the U.S helped the South Korean aid the U.S ended getting into war as well. -
Korean War
Korean War known as the forgoten war the communist part of korea started to take over the noncommunist part of korea and of corse that U.S could not let that happen, -
landing at Inchon
The Battle of Inchon was an amphibious invasion and battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations. -
Vietnam War Begins
The Vietnamese elected a communist government and the U.S thought that it was terrible so we went to war and then Russia thought it would be a good idea to help vietnam in war which was not a good idea because then we became in war with Russia. -
Berlin wall
Separated West Berlin from East Berlin and all so separated friends and family and anyone who tried to climb the wall where shot on site. -
demilitarized zone
Is a region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates from North Korea and from South Korea. -
Fidel Castro
Lead a successful revolution in cuba and is exiled then meets Che Guevara and then returns to cuba with his buddy and leads a successful revolution and take over Cuba and make it communist. -
Jules & Ethel Rosenberg
They were American citizens were accused of spilling secrets to the soviet union about the atomic bomb. -
Che Guevara
Was Castro friend that helps him lead a successful communist revolution and then became Castros little handy man and took care of all the problems. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven European countries signed the warsaw pact saying the the Soviet Union commanded their military. -
NASA
NASA was made directly because the pressures of national defense. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, -
John F. Kennedy
Was the youngest president to be in office and made the white house his own little comolot and he was the one who finally brought down cuba. -
Vietcong
Was an army in South Vietnam and cambodia that fought the U.S and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
Was a miserable fail from the U.S that the U.S tried to do a sneak attack on cuba but attack a public beach and people went to the authorities and that plan was shot down. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
When the U.S findes atom bombs on Cuba that Russia was keeping there for safe keeping. -
General Douglas MacArthur
He was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
South east asia resoulution was a joint resolution that the United States Congress. -
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh led the Vietnamese nationalist movement for more than three decades, fighting first against the Japanese, then the French colonial power and then the US-backed South Vietnamese. -
The Tet Offensive
when northern vietnamese went through veit cong and attacked the U.S called The Tet Offensive -
draft
When selective serface system of the U.S conductded two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. -
Nikita Khrushchev
He lead the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, -
detente
Help relive tension from the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Salt Agreement
It was when the U.S and the Soviet Union agree on limiting the amount of nuclier weapons. -
Star Wars
Was a fake space defence thing let made people think that we put weapons in space like lasers that could shot from satellites. -
Ronald Reagan
Was a actor former mayor of Illinois and was the 40th president of the U.S and he cut taxes increased defense spending, negotiated a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the soviets and is credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the cold war. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Was a soviet official of the general secretary of the communist party and the soviet union and was the president of the soviet union. -
Glasnost
He launched his nation on a dramatic new course but it did not work because country broke off and people did like that and people started to get mad so that did not work. -
Communism Collapses
Revolitionary waved the flag of noncommunisum and then the fall of communisum happend in euroupe. -
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
All known as the USSR divided 15 into constituent or union republics.