cold war

  • interstate commerce act

    regulated the railroad industry
    - decreased
  • GI Bill

    A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II.
    helping millions of returning veterans go to college and buy homes in the great postwar suburban land rush.
    - decreased
  • Berlin airlift

    this was a military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needs into west Berlin because the government of east Germany cut off supplies to west Germany west supply route
    - i guess you can say it decreased tensions because the military figured out away to get supplies to west Germany.
  • Brinkmanship of 1953

    foreign policy practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other. was ended with the Korean Armistice Agreement the United States supporting the Republic of Korea, and the Soviet Union supporting the DPRK, the Korean War was the first armed conflict of the Cold War
    - increased
  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

    prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere.
    important first step toward the control of nuclear weapons.
    -decreased
  • Truman doctrine

    an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War.
    providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism.
    - decreased
  • Korean war

    this war was a fight between the united nations; North Korea invaded South Korea . This war was supported by the US and North Korea
    - increased tensions
  • Korean War

    the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea began when North Korea invaded South Korea. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War.
    increased
  • The Warsaw Pact

    the Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty,a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.
    increased
  • Eisen Howers Doctrine

    it promised Military or Economic aid to any middle eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.
    - It decreased tensions
  • Spuntik

    is the first satellite to be placed on the orbit. sputnik served to intensify the arms race.
    - increased tensions with US and Soviet Union
  • Bay Of Pigs

    an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government.
    it was a fail
    increased
  • Berlin wall

    East Germany build a wall out of concrete and barbed wire between east and west Germany.
    the wall divided families who found themselves unable to visit each other. Many East Berliners were cut off from their jobs.
    - increased
  • Cuban missile Crisis

    the US and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear conflict.
    the soviet union installed nuclear missiles 90 mile from the U.S shores.
    - increased tensions
  • NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance founded to strengthen international ties between member states.
    The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance the Warsaw Pact.
    - increased