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Truman Doctrin
His goal was containment, first turned his attention to Europe -
Berlin Blockade
the first great confrontation of the cold war -
Marshall Plan
sent vast amount of money to 16 nations in Europe -
Berlin airlift
places began to fly in food, clothing, medicine, and food into Berlin places began to fly in food, clothing, medicine, and food into Berlin -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
U.S. and Canada formed a treaty that any attack against one country in NATO would mean an attack against all -
Koreon war
the first major proxy war -
Vietnam war
U.S. took conrol of half of Vietnam and the other half went to war on the other half of Vietnam to get it back -
Bay of pigs invasion
cuban exiles landed there and were quickly killed or captured -
Berlin wall
a wall dividing the city so anyone who tried to escape could not, a grim symbol of a divided Europe -
Cuban missile crisis
the soviet union attacked the U.S. from Cuba because it was so close to Florida
