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Iron Curtain Speech
Churchill’s speech, considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman establishing that the US would provide political, military & economic assistance to all nations under threat from authoritarian forces. -
Molotov Plan
system created by the Soviet Union providing aid & rebuilding countries in Eastern Europe that politically and economically aligned with the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Airlift
United States begins massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of West Berlin -
Berlin Blockade
the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Marshall Plan
U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. -
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
The Soviet Union Tests the Bomb
the Soviets successfully constructed an atomic bomb that could wipe out an entire continent -
Warsaw Pact
collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw -
Invasion of Hungary, 1956
nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968
joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary