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Red Scare
John Earl Haynes, Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism and Anti Communism in the Cold War Era. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman argued that the United States could no longer stand by and allow the forcible expansion of Soviet totalitarianism into free, independent nations. -
Marshall Plan
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
U-2 incident
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, the Cuban-exile invasion force, known as Brigade 2506, landed at beaches along the Bay of Pigs and immediately came under heavy fire. -
Berlin Wall
Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. -
Curban Missible Chrisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 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. -
Non-Proliferation treaty
The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation. -
Space race
An important element of the Cold War was the Space Race, in which both countries raced to build new technologies to be used for space exploration. -
Perestroika and Glasnost
during the late 1980s widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.