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Truman Doctrian
U.S would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nation under threat from external or internal authoritarian force -
Marshall Plan
A program by which the US gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuifd after WW2 -
NATO
An intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
COMECON
organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world. -
Eisenhower
American politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States -
Krushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. -
Warsaw Pact
Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. -
Fidel Castro
Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime minister, then later became president -
U2 incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
John F. Kennedy
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States -
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, -
Bay of Pigs
filed military invasion of Cuban undertaken by the CIA -
Berlin Wall Built
A guarded concrete barrier that physically and idevlogically divide Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Vietnamization
Policy to end U.S involvement in the Vietnam war -
Detente
French word meaning release from tentsion -
Glasnost
publicity in the sense the state of being open to public knowledge -
Perestroika
a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
Berlin wall torn down
After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin.
