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Creation of "The Iron Curtain"
"The Iron Curtain" was the physical boundary dividing Europe into two seperates area from then end of Wold War ll in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet controlled areas. -
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Cold War 10 Major Events
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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan provided 13 billion dollars for rebuildidng Europe. The plan helped western Europe make a rapid recovery from the war, and it also helped preserve political stability. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occuped Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Belin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
Forming of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 othern western natins to form the Norh Atlantic Treaty Organiation. -
Forming of Warsw Pact
The Soviet Union andits affiliated Comunist nations in Eastern Europe funde a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
Vietnam War
The Cold War was a fight between the United Statesand the USSR over the world/s reources. South Vietnam was an allie of the US and North Vietnam was an alie of te USSE. The US feared if North Vietnam won the war other countries in SouthAsia would also fall to Communism. -
Sputnik
The Soutnik crisis ws the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik Program. It was a key Cold War event that began on Oct. 4 1957. -
The U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eishenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushev, when a United Sates U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs
The bay of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban Government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute since the US was not in war with Cuba then. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was created in the dead of night and for 28 years kept Easr Germans from fleeing to the west
