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Iron curtain speech
on march 5th, 1946 winston churchill visited a college and gave a speech talking about the soviet union influencing 8 communist states. -
truman doctrine
An american foreign policy that established that the united States would provide military help to all democratic nations who are threatened. -
marshall plan
Was an american recovery program that was formed to help Western Europe and the US gave $12 billion to western European countries to help rebuild after World War 2. -
Berlin Blockade
The soviet union blocked the western allies railway and canal access to Berlin under western control -
NATO
An alliance that has 29 member states from north america and Europe also known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
berlin airlift
since soviets blocked West Berlin the united states made airlifts for the trapped people in Berlin. -
communist take over china
On October 1st Mao Zedong took control over China. -
korean war
War between North and South split into 2 states -
vietnam war
China became communist and took over north Vietnam the United States sent money and supplies and military advisers to North Vietnam in hoes of resisting communism. -
revolt in hungary
revolt Hungarian people against the ruling of the communist party and the soviet policies which had the government collapse. -
sputnik
soviet union launched earths first satellite known as sputnik-1 -
great leap forward
Mao Zedongs 5 year plan of changing china from a farming society to a modern industrial society -
apollo program
designed to land humans oncthe moon and land back to earth -
cuban missle crisis
13 day confrontation between the US and the SS -
revolt in czechoslovakia
Soviet Union sent troops in to crack down reformist in prague. -
cultural revolution
sociopolitical movement in China from1966 to 1976
