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United Nations
The United Nations was the second attempt at creating a collective security system with only a few decades -
General Douglas MacArthur
General Douglas MacArthur was an American 5 star general.He was Staff in the US army before he was general and lead the US army in the Cold War -
38th parrallel
The 38th parrallel was the boarder betwwen south and North Korea. -
demilitarized zone
The Korean Demilitarized Zone is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula that serves as a buffer zone between North and South Korea -
Che Guevara
Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist -
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated to USSR and SU or shortened to the Soviet Union, was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent -
The Truman Doctrine
His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
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Cold War
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Berlin Blockade
The Russians wanted to cut of west Berlin from getting supplies but the US flew it over.The Belin Blockade was a wall.The Russians built it so no one can get out of it or come in. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 -
landing at Inchon
landing at Inchon was a beach where general Mc Douglus boomed and supplied UN troops. -
Senator Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall plan was where President Marshall helped pay hospitals -
Korean War
The Korean war was a war between north kora and south korea.South Korea wanted to spread communist the U.S sent troops to fight for North korea. -
Jules & Ethel Rosenberg
Jules & Ethel Rosenberg were a made coulple and were sent to death by using the electric chair -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was theTreaty of Friendship that was a Co-operation that was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -
Viet cong
Viet cong was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War -
Vietnam War Begins
Vietnam War was a long and bloody war in the 1956.Vietnam was a communist country for two years.More then 3 million people,including 58,000 Americans were killed in the war. -
nikita khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. -
NASA
NASA was the space station.NASA was the one who would send space rockets and played a big roll in the Cold War. -
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. -
John F. Kennedy
JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was April 1961, the CIA launched a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis was a a fight between the United States amd the Soviet Unioin in the Cold war.It was close to be a nuclear war and the US trird to invade Cuba but got noticed and the US invasion failed.The invasion was called Bay of Pigs -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. -
The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a hostile attack to south vietnam -
Detente
Detente is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. -
Salt Agreement
The SALT agreements signed on May 27 addressed two major issues. First, they limited the number of antiballistic missiles.Second, the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles -
Draft
The Draft was established In 1973.but men of draft age was still have to enter in the millitary. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American actor and politician. He was the 40th President of the United States, and served as the 33rd Governor of California -
Star Wars
Ronald Reagan was the president and started Star Wars. Star Wars was a space weapon where it can fire missles or nukes.The space weapon was a defence weapon. -
Mikhail gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was thelast leader of the Soviet Union.He was also a General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 -
Glasnost
Glasnost was a was a policy that called for transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. -
Communism Collapses
The USSR had 15 countries break of signaliling the end of the USSR and the Cold war -
Armistice
Armistice was an agreement to stop or end war.The Cold war ended by a armistice -
superpower
superpower was the defenation for the two powerful countries Russia and the United States.In 1992 Russia was not a powerful country and that is when communism falls.
