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buffer states of ussr
Soviet buffer zone. Territorially enlarged, the USSR came out of the war with an aura of prestige from having fought Hitler's Germany. Although in 1945 the Communist world was limited to the Soviet Union, it rapidly spread to Central and Eastern Europe, forming a protective buffer zone for the USSR. #domino theory -
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atomic bomb
he first, Little Boy, was a gun-type weapon with a uranium core. Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. The second weapon, dropped on Nagasaki, was called Fat Man and was an implosion-type device with a plutonium core#mad -
molotov plan
system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union #contianmenttheory -
Truman Doctorine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War . ... More generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism. #containment theory -
marshall plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II #detente -
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Berlin airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.#detente -
u.s. aid to greece
The U.S. provided Greece with more than $11.1 billion in economic and security assistance after 1946.
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u.s. aid to turkey
he United States began giving large amounts of aid to Greece and Turkey under the Truman doctrine. #detente -
communist win china
take power 1949. In 1945 the Americans reinstated Chiang Kai-shek as ruler of China, and tried to organise a truce between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, but after the surrender of Japan a civil war broke out, which the Communists won after a vicious struggle.#containmenttheory -
nato establish
primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies #deterence -
ussr gets atomic bomb
the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. #mad -
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korean war
began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid #domino theory -
coup in iran
was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom #containment therory -
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coup in guatemala
covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution #containment theory -
warsaw pact formed
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beginning of troops in vietnam
North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the United States. #dominotheory -
suez canal crisis
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hungary rebellion
was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. #deterrence -
sputnik
The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space.#detente -
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sandanistas rise up in nicaragua
one of a Nicaraguan group that overthrew President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending 46 years of dictatorship by the Somoza family. #deterrence -
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Cuba missile crisis
was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.#brinksmanship -
China explodes atomic bomb
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The People's Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear test on this day in 1964. China is fifth to do so #mad -
End of troops in Vietnam
The last remaining American troops withdraw from Vietnam as President Nixon declares "the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come." America's longest war, and its first defeat, thus concludes. #containment theory -
Communist in Agola
While Americans feared a communist takeover of the continent, the relationships the USSR forged in Africa did not last long. #containment theory -
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Soviets invade Afghanistan
At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. #domino theory -
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War in El Salvador
discontent with the government provoked the five main guerrilla groups country to unite in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). In 1980, El Salvador's civil war officially began.#deterrrence -
Evil empire speech
was first applied to the Soviet Union in 1983 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities #deterrence -
Star wars sdi
program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Iran contra affair
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Fall of Berlin wall
Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders -
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Fall of ussr
s the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.#detente
