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The Truman Doctorine
This was a US foreign policy that said the US would protect all of the democracies in the world. It also said that we would fight Communism. It helped with the "domino theory". -
Marshall Plan
This was the US plan to rebuild Europe in the west and to repel Communism. This gave a lot of money to that part of Europe for food and supplies. Because of that, it made heros of the people in Western Europe -
NATO
This is when NATO was first formed. It helped "lead" the cold war. It involved several countries, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and the US -
Sputnik
This was the earth's first satellite. The Soviet Union launched it. It took 98 minutes to orbit the earth -
Space Race
This was a competition for who can explore more space. It was between the US and the Soviet Union. Sputnik 2 took the first living creature to space, a dog. -
U-2 incident
This was a plane that was shot down by the USSR. They also captured the pilot. This is when the President had to admit that we have been flying several planes over on their territory. -
Berlin Wall
This was built to separate East and West Germany. This was a symbol of the Cold War. This was built to prevent several refugees from trying to leave East Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A US plane saw that the Soviet Union was making a nuclear missile base. JFK told them to take it down and set up a naval blockade. The Russians agreed to stop making the weapons so going to war was avoided -
Four Power Agreement Berlin
This was an agreement between Russia, US, France and Britain. Berlin was "divided" because of this. They also pledged to protect each countries' authority -
Cambodia Killing fields
Communists attacked Cambodia and took control of it. Anyone who was associated with this was killed. The place where they would murder the people became known as the "killing fields". -
Iranian hostage crisis
A group of people from Iran came into American and took 53 people. They were held hostage for 444 days. Their motive for this was to show their support for the Iranian Revolution -
USA Olympic Boycott
The US and many other countries didn't go to the Olympics that year. This was a protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Great Britain had to idea to participate under the Olympic flag instead of their own -
Chernobyl Disaster
This was the worst nuclear drop in history. This took place in Ukraine. There were about 4,000 deaths -
Tiananmen Square
This was an Anti Communist protest. Ten thousand people were arrested. This took place in Beijing, China -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
There were political changes which loosened some regulations of the Berlin Wall. East Germany said that they could go into Western Germany, but he forgot say some things didn't change. The people thought the border was open. This made the Berlin Wall fall apart, which was a step to the end of the war.
