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Buffer States of the USSR
Poland and other states between Germany and the Soviet Union have at times been described as buffer states, referencing when they were non-communist states before WWII, and when they were communist states after WWII. -
Atomic Bomb
On this day in New Mexico america successfully detonated the atom bomb that would eventually win us the war -
Molotov Plan
A plan to stay in their area and grow by recruiting surrounding countries or a reverse Marshall plan #containment theory -
Truman Doctrine
To stop communism from spilling out #domino theory -
U.S. aid to greece
The US gave help to Greece in order to gain them as an ally so they wouldn't join the USSR #Containment theory -
U.S. aid to turkey
Like Greece america gave help to Turkey to gain it as an allie so they wouldn't join the USSR #containment theory -
Marshall Plan
A plan to aid countries around the USSR so they would join us and stunt the USSR's growth #Domino theory -
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Berlin airlift
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NATO Established
The North Atlantic treaty organization -
USSR gets atomic bomb
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Communists win China
The Americans reinstated Chiang Kai-shek as ruler of China, and tried to organize a truce between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, but after the surrender of Japan to civil war broke out, which the Communists won after a vicious struggle. -
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Korean war
The Korean War began when North Korea, supported by the Soviet Union and China, invaded South Korea, which was supported by the United States. General MacArthur, leader of the U.N forces, drove the North Koreans back across the divide, btu encountered a Chinese invasion. -
Coup in iran
the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. -
Coup in guatamala
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to get rid of the democratically elected president and ended the guatemalan revolution. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
It was the Communist counteraction to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as a potentially militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism. The signing of the pact became a symbol of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe. -
Suez canal crisis
The Suez Crisis was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
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Hungary (rebellion)
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Sputnik
The first artificial earth satellite a 58 cm in diameter sphere with 4 external antennas. -
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Cuban missle crisis
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China explodes atomic bomb
China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb. The Chinese people had finally developed their own nuclear technology.
On the same day, the Chinese government made a solemn promise to the world that it developed nuclear weapons only for the purpose of self-defense and safeguarding national security. China would never at any time or under any circumstances be the first to use nuclear weapons. -
Beginning of troops in Vietnam
American troops were sent in to vietnam. -
Coup in Chile
Thousands of Chileans were subsequently tortured, jailed and killed by the military dictatorship. Democracy in Chile was horribly altered, and even now the country continues to be scarred by one of the darkest ages of fear and repression on the continent, changing the history of the country-and region. -
Communist Angola
The Angolan War of Independence began as an uprising against forced cotton cultivation, and became a multi-faction struggle for the control of Portugal's Overseas Province of Angola among three nationalist movements and a separatist movement. -
End of troops in Vietnam
The end of the war in vietnam and when the troops got to come home. -
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Iran islamic revolution
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Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
The Contras were the various US-backed and right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to the early 1990s in opposition to the left wing, socialist Sandinista Junta of the National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua. -
US - Iran Embassy hostages
Fifty-two American citizens were held hostage for 444 days by Islamic radicals -
Soviets invade Afganistan
The Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the communist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) against a growing insurgency. -
War in El Salvador
a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front -
Evil Empire Speech
The evil empire is what reagan called the USSR -
Star Wars (S.D.I)
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan -
Iran Contra Affair
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Fall of the USSR
