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Truman Doctrine
United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all countries in Europe affected by the war -
Containment
US trying to make sure communism is contained and doesn't spread -
Marshall Plan
US gave 13 billion dollars to help rebuild Europe and their economy -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance -
COMECON
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance -
Russia test first a bomb
Russian show power by testing an atomic bomb -
Korean war
South and North Korea have a civil war one was a communism and other Democratic -
Krushchev
The new prime minister of USSR after Stalin's death -
Korean war ends
South Korea wins and it's communism -
Eisenhower
President Dwight Eisenhower elected president -
Warsaw Pact
Defence treaty for USSR and the 7 satalite states -
Sputnik
Was the first satellite to orbit the earth during the space race it was a Russian one -
Explorer 1
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States launched -
Fidel Castro
Communist leader of Cuba hated by the US -
Cuba taken by fidel
In 1959 Fidel Castro overthrew the government and became leader -
U2 Incident
American spy plane shot down by USSR -
John F Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy is elected president of the US -
Yuri Gagarin
Was the first man in space during the space race -
Bay of Pigs
Cuban who had fled from Fidel Castro try to overthrow him -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban missile crisis
USSR gave missiles to cuba, America was worried and it almost caused a war -
Vietnamization
policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War -
Apollo 11
First aircraft to land men on the moon lands on the moon -
Detente
the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries -
Glasnost
Openness, Russia was allowed to have freedom of speech -
Perestroika
was the restructuring of the USSR economy -
Berlin wall torn down
Berlin wall was torn down and the city was reunited again -
Germany reunited
Germany for the first time in a long time is finally reunited -
Cold war ends
The 2 major powers agree to end the cold war
