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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American program to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was the first major international crisis in the cold war. The USSR blockaded all transport into the US controlled section of Berlin. Due to Berlins location deep within Soviet Terriory it was seen by the soviets as a embarrassment. The allied forces over came the blockade by flying shipments in. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful United States backed invasion of Cuba by the armed wing of the DRF (Democratic Revolutionary Front) known as Brigade 2506 from the 17th to the 19th of April 1961. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was the wall between west Berlin and East Berlin the allied powers divided conquered Germany into four zones, each occupied by either the united states, Great Britain, France, or the soviet Union (as agreed at the Potsdam conference). As the relationship between the soviet Union and the other three Allied powers quickly disintegrated, the allied forces combined to make West Berlin. As a result the Berlin wall was constructed and kept people from crossing the wall. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev under considerable political pressure took a great gamble and in 1962 deployed medium range missiles to the new Soviet Ally Cuba. However the US discovered the missiles before they became operational and imposed a blockade on Cuba. Khrushchev was forced to withdraw. Mutually assured destruction was now the main deterrent from using these weapons against one another. -
SALT TREATY
The strategic arms limitation (SALT 1) was a political agreement to disarm highly dangerous weapons in response to the tension and destruction that the A bomb caused. The treaty was signed on the November 1969 between the United States and the Soviet Union.
