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Mao Zedong
Led communists forces in china through along revolution beginning 1927 and ruled nation's communists government from establishmentin 1949. Along with Vladimir Lenn and Joseph Stalin, Mao considered one of the most significant figures in the cold war. -
Iron Curtain
Was the physical boundary dividing europe into two seperate areas from the end of WW2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. To provide listeners with new the radio free europe informed with effort from the communists government. -
Trumine doctrine
American foriegn policy to soviet imperialism during the Cold War. truman announced he pledged to contain soviet threats to greece and turkey. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed economic recovery act of 1948. it became known at the marshall plan who in 1947 proposed the US provide economic assistance to restore economic of europe. -
Berlin Airlift
Russians believed they would force the people who lived get food or supplies and drive britian, france, and US out of the city for good. US and aliies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the sir -
Korean War
was a war with north and south korea. The united nstiond force led by the US and fought for south and china fought for north Mao Zedong to send troops to north korea and warned US tokeep away fromt the Yalu boundaryinlessit wanted full scale war. -
Rosenberg Trail
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who spied for the soviet union and were exectuted for conspiracy to commit esponage and passing information abut atomic bomb to the soviets. -
Sputnik
was launched to correspond to the geophysical year. A solar period that the international counit of scientific unions declared would be ideal to study Earth snd solar system. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 cubans exiles lanuched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of pigs on the south of cuba. Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that over threw cuban dictator -
Berlin Wall-Setup&Demolitition
The berlin wall was bulit by german democratic republic. they believed the west berlin threatned the new way of life, to stop emigration, and to stop them from attracting jobs. it divided east and west germany
