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IRON CURTAIN SPEECH
Winston Churchill delivers the speech in the United States. He is concerned about Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain is the division between Capitalist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. He wanted America to take a bigger role in Soviet aggression. -
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
On March 12, 1947 the Truman Doctrine was issued by President Harry S. Truman. The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy and the purpose was to counter the geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Truman had established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threats from external and internal forces. It was later Developed on July 12, 1948 when he had pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. -
MARSHALL PLAN
The Marshall plan happen in April 3, 1948. The purpose of the Marshall plan was that the United States wanted to provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. The United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies. -
BERLIN AIRLIFT
The U.S began the Berlin airlift. Josef Stalin’s government has attempted to consolidate control of the city by cutting off all land and sea routes to West Berlin in order to pressure the Allies to evacuate. On June 24 the western section of Berlin and its 2 million people were deprived of food, heating fuel and other crucial supplies. U.S and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city was isolated by the Soviet Union blockade. -
BERLIN BLOCKADE
The Berlin blockade was one of the major turning points of international crises of the Cold War. The Berlin blockade cause was during the beginning of the Cold War. Which was when Stalin was taking over the eastern Europe by salami tactics and Czechoslovakia had just turned Communist. During the postwar the Soviet Union blocked the western allies like the railroad, road, and canal access. Which were accessed in the sectors of Berlin under western control. It ended in May 12, 1949. -
COMMUNISTS TAKE OVER CHINA
On October 1, 1949 was when China was lead by the communist party of China by Mao Zedong which he had declared the creation of the people’s republic of China. After the war the Truman administration published the “China White Paper” explained past US policies towards China. Unfortunately it had ended and failed and left an exiled nationalist government in Taiwan and it heightened sense among the US anti-Communist that the outcome of the struggle could be reversed. -
NATO
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The purpose of it was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation. It was created by a treaty that was signed on April 4, 1949. -
KOREAN WAR
The Korean War began in June 25, 1950, when 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean Army poured across the 38th parallel. There was conflict between North Korea and South Korea. Because of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and United states it had lead to the split of Korea and turned them in two sovereign states. -
VIETNAM WAR
On November 1, 1955 many countries were involved in the Vietnam war. The Vietnam War was caused because China had became communist A and communist were in control of north Vietnam. United States feared that communism would spread to South Vietnam and the rest of Asia. So they decided to send Money, supplies, and military advisers to help our the south Vietnamese. The war ended by North Vietnam signing a peace treaty. -
REVOLT IN HUNGARY
The Revolt in Hungary was created by the Hungarian people that were against the ruling of Communist Party of the time and the Soviet policies. The Soviets were brutal to the Hungarians by viciously crushing people with tanks. Many Hungarians were killed including some Soviet troops. Hungary had withdrawn by using the NATO. -
SPUTNIK
The Soviet Union was the first to launch an artificial satellite. The US was shocked because they thought that they would be the first to launch an artificial satellite. The US military had feared that they’ve fallen behind in developing new technologies. After US failed many attempts the Soviet union continued to launch the satellites. -
SPUTNIK-CONT.
The launch of the Sputnik’s fueled both space race and arms race, and because of this tension rose in the Cold War as the countries tried preparing new methods on attacking each other. -
GREAT LEAP FORWARD
The great leap forward was China second five-year plan created by Mao. The plan was to transform China from an agrarian society into a modern industrialized communist nation. The Great leap forward Resulted in human centered and economic disaster. 30-50 million people died of starvation. -
APOLLO PROGRAM
The first flight of the Apollo Program was in 1961.President John F. Kennedy was the one who started Apollo space program by challenging the nation to take people up to the moon and back. They had around ten test runs most of them made it to the moon. -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13th day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union and happened in Oct.16, 1962. It happened because United States found out that the Soviets had a ballistic missile deployments in Cuba. -
CULTURAL REVOLUTION
The Cultural Revolution happened in 1966. It was led up by the red guards. Mao Zedong, China's communists leader was the one who was mainly involved. The red guards shut down school, targeted people, and executed people. He mainly wanted to eliminate his rivals make sure they stayed communists. The purpose of this was to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal. -
REVOLT IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
The revolt in Czechoslovakia began in 1968 when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. The soviets wanted to crush the Prague Spring which was a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. People wanted to become independent and a free socialist state. This event happened because of Alexander Dubcek when he was elected first secretary. After all the countries invaded Dubcek decided to curtail his reforms.
