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The creation of the "Iron Curtain"
The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. -
The Marshall Plan
he Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
The Berlin Airlift
viets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. -
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 (NATO). -
U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government
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U.S. sponsored coup
U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed. -
Forming of Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955 -
Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution.
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Sputnik
he Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program -
The U-2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev -
Bay of pigs
he Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute as US was not in war with Cuba then. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
he Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
e fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise. -
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. -
Vietnam War
e cold war was a fight between the United States and the USSR over the world's resources
