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blockade of berlin
joseph stalin ordered a blockade hoping to starve the allies out of the city and he cclosed all railroads and roads to west berlin -
berlin airlift
american and british planes sent food, clothing and shelter, medicine, fuel to west berlin -
NATO
10 westeren european countries and canada and the united states formed this so an attack on one of them is an attack on all of them -
korean war
war between north and south Korea, the end of the war they both agreed to be seperate -
mccarthyism
lost public support for his crusade when he made false charges against the us army on television -
the warsaw pact
military cooporation among the soviet union, albania, hungary, polend, rumania, and east germeny, they would defend each other -
the cuban missle crisis
the soviet union removed there missile bases so Kennedy wont attack Cuba -
vietnam war
south Vietnam was lead by anti- communist but north Vietnam was lead by communist leaders who were going to use guerrilla war fare on south Vietnam -
poland
poland elected a non- communist government -
soviet union
new soviet leader garbachev was elected on this date
