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Iron Curtain
It was the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Cold War
Was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in theEastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
He was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
On April 3, 1948, (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) It was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
After World War II, the Allies partitioned the defeated Germany into a Soviet-occupied zone, an American-occupied zone, a British-occupied zone and a French-occupied zone. In June 1948, the Russians who wanted Berlin all for themselves closed all highways, railroads and canals from western-occupied Germany into western-occupied Berlin however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air.This effort, known as the “Berlin Airlift,” lasted for more than a year. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
On Jun 24, 1948- March 12 1949, International crisist that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union. To force the Western Allied powers to abandaned their post-World War II IN West Berlin. -
Containment Policy
A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communismabroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
Mccarthysim
Its the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence, During the McCarthy era, thousands of Americans were accused of being communists or communist sympathizers. It was also a a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, on February 9, 1950, McCarthy proclaimed that he was aware of 205 card-carrying members of the Communist Party who worked for the United States Department of State. -
Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The launch meant ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17,1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. It was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961
