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Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombing
The U.S detonated two nuclear weapons over both of these japanese cities. Killing 129,000 and 226,000 in both cities causing conflict. -
Red Scare
Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. -
Truman Doctrine
Positioned the United States as the defender of a free world in the face of Soviet aggression -
Vietnam War
Vietnam was a battleground in the Cold War, when the United States and Soviet Union grappled for world domination. -
Suez Crisis
Threatened regional stability and challenged the U.S. relationship with two primary Cold War allies, Britain and France. -
Berlin Wall
Separated the democratic western countries and the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest we ever came to a nuclear war -
Perestroika/Glastnost
2 soviet policies made by Gorbachev that attempted to make them more like the west. His own people resisted. -
Tiananmen square massacre
Inspired protesters in the USSR, which then led them to the collapse of the soviet union. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Eastern Europe began to transition from communism to democracy
