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Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
War broke out when peace talk went bad and they were at war agian.Jiang Jieshi was the Nationalist party and Mao Zedong was the commuist party. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade is a wall that was built by the Soviet Union to seperate Berlin from the Rest of the world.It kept the people in side from getting supplies and only lasted about a year. -
Berlin Airlift
This is when the allies started dropping supplies on Berlin. They did this because the people in Berlin could not get food and other supplies anyother way then by air. -
Formation of NATO
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was started to repel communism,forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration. -
Korean War
This was a war was about south korea fighting of the communist North koreans. This war took place throughout the 38 paralla. -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
This was a set of top secret documents during the Cold War. It was 58 pages long and was one of the most influencle things during the cold war. -
President Truman fires General MacArthur
This happened because MacArthur had conflicting ideas of what to do in Korea. This caused a huge uproar because MacArthur was fired. -
Formation of the Warsaw pact
The warsaw pact was a treaty made up of Communist states in Europe.The Warsaw pact Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
launching the sputnik
This is when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite. It also ment that America lost the race to be the first country to send something in space. -
cuban missile crisis
This is when the Soviet Union tried to place nuclear missles in Cuba. This possed a threat because Cuba is about 70 miles from America, and that is to close for any warning devices of the time to notice for the US to react.
