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Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
There was a difference in thinking between the communist chinese party and the National Kuomintang. They wanted a "legitimacy" in government. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. -
Berlin Airlift
When planes would supply vital necessities to West Berlin by air transport. Mostly under U.S. auspices. It was started in response to a land and water blockade of the city that had been instituted by the Soviet Union in the hope that the Allies would be forced to abandon West Berlin. -
Formation of NATO
further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
It was a secret report about in the face of U.S. foreign policy concerns, most notably the Soviet explosion of an atomic device in September 1949 and China's fall to communism the following October, President Truman requested a complete review and re-evaluation of America's Cold War diplomacy strategy. -
Korean War
began when about 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
President Truman fires General MacArthur
While Truman was working on a peace agreement for North Korea and China to stop the expansion, MacArthur wrote an unauthorized letter saying that they need to expand the war into China if the communist party refused to come to terms. -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
A military alliance for communist nations in eastern Europe. Included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
