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Creation of the "Iron Curtain"
"Iron Curtain" is a term that described the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. It was both a physical and ideological seperator that that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American porgram that helped aid Europe after World War II. America gave Europe monetary support to help rebuild the European economies after the end of World War II to try and prevent the spread of soviet Communism. This plan was made in order to make Europe prosperous again. -
The Berlin Air Lift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. This blockade was an attempt to try and starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supermacy. -
Forming of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Forming of Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
THe Vietnam War
The Cold War was a fight between the United States and the USSR for the wolrd's resources. We bboth had allies. The US had South Vietnam allied and the USSR had North Vietnam allied. -
Sputnik
he Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program. It was a key Cold War event that began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. The launch of Sputnik I and the failure of its first two Project Vanguard launch attempts rattled the American public; President Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to it as the “Sputnik Crisis”. -
The U-2 Incident
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. -
Bay of Pigs
THe Bay of Pigs refers to the American attack that was sponsored by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro. It wasn't going to be the easiest task since the US wasn't in war with Cuba. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was created in order to keep germans from fleeing to the west. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban Missle Crisis was the closest thing the world ever came to having a nuclear war. The US was at it's highest state at readiness and the Cubans were ready to use battlefield nuclear weapons. -
Diplomatic Relations
U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations. -
Tiananmen Square demand reforms
Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government. -
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened as quick as The rise of it. As soon as the fall, citizens were able to move to the west whenever they pleased. -
Dissolution of the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declaration acknowledged the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union following the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
