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Truman Doctrine
What : policy that Truman wrote to support all democratic countries.
Who : Harry S. Truman, British Government, Congress.
How : He was for Democracy and against Communism. It helped countries with money and supplies.
Why : The British Government says that they will no longer support the Greek Civil War with Communist Party but Truman wanted to support them so he went for a speech to spread his idea about Doctrine. -
Marshall Plan
What : It was an Economic Recovery Act for Europe.
Who : Truman, George Marshall.
How : The US provides economic assistance to restore the economy of postwar Europe.
Why : It helps to rebuild the continent's economy and for the US this plan provides American markets and trades. -
Berlin Blockade / Airlift
What : Soviet Union controlled eastern Germany and forced blockade railroad, road and water access
Who : Soviet forces, Western Germany.
How : the US and United Kingdom airlifted food and fuel to Berlin.
Why : competing occupation policies and rising tensions between Western powers and the Soviet Union. -
Space Race
What : Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon for the first time.
Who : The US, Soviet Union.
How: the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement of their similar intent to launch artificial satellites.
Why : it starts between the respective militaries of the United States and the Soviet Union. -
U- 2 Incident
What : the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace.
Who : Francis Gary Powers, Soviet Union.
How : the spy plane had been shot down by one of a salvo of 14 Soviet SA-2 missiles.
Why : The US was embarrassed as it was shown to be using espionage. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
What : They were shot down by the Cubans.
Who : Tony Varona, José Miró Cardona, Rafael Quintero, Aureliano Arango.
How : three U.S.-made airplanes piloted by Cubans bombed Cuban air bases.
Why : the overthrow of Castro and the establishment of a non-communist government friendly to the United States. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
What : extensive consultation with his foreign policy and military advisers,Kennedy blockaded Cuba.
Who: US and Soviet Union.
How : an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed by nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
Why : After the failed U.S. attempt to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba with the Bay of Pigs invasion. -
Red Scare
What : many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents.
Who : McCarthyism, Soviet Union and US.
How : Senator McCarthy became a tireless crusader against Communism.
Why : the end WW1 led it to happen. -
Perestroika and Glasnost
What : a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Who : Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union.
How : Glasnost led to revolutions in Soviet states, while perestroika created economic confusion.
Why : Gorbachev emphasized the need of a faster political personnel turnover and of a policy of democratization. -
Berlin Wall
What : the Berlin Wall falls down.
Who : the German Democratic Republic, Günter Schabowski , Soviet Control.
How : it fell down because of a bureaucratic accident, a wave of revolutions that left the Soviet.
Why : it fell down because of political change in Eastern Europe and Civil unrest in Germany. -
Non- Proliferation Treaty
What: was an agreement that pledged cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology.
Who : the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union.
How : first proposed by Ireland in a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Why : Given the excessive costs involved in the development and deployment of new and more technologically advanced nuclear weapons.