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The truman Doctrine
This was a pledge to provide economic and military aid to oppose the spread of communism. The U.S. agreed to send hundreds of millions of dollars to Greece and Turkey. -
Berlin Airlift
June 1948, the soviets blocked off all land, rail, and water routes into West Berlin. They refused to give up so they set up the Berlin airlift, a massive effort to supl west Berlin by air. -
war in Korea
1950 the North Koreans attacked South Korea, they wanted to unite the country under a communist government. U.N soon formed a military force with troops from 17 different nations to Korea. -
1952 Hydrogen Bomb
In the fall of 1952 the United Stated tested the first fusion-powered hydrogen bomb. A year later Soviets tested their own hydrogen bomb, this brought them to an arms race. -
Open skies treaty
President Eisenhower proposed a socalled open skies treaty with the Soviet Union. Allowed each side the use skies to receive information about its weapons. -
Sputnik
October 1957 the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, an artificial satellite. The first satellite launched into space, created fear in Americans, -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. government seeking to overthrow Castro, secretly trained about 1500 Cubans who fled his regime. U.S. believed this would start a massive Cuban uprising against Castro. -
Test Ban Treaty
This treat outlawed nuclear testing in the Atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater. -
ratified the INF treaty
This called for elimination of certain types of missiles. This helped the american soviet union conflict. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. They agreed to remove the missiles when the U.S. agreed to remove U.S. missiles i Turkey.
