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The Marshall Plan
The european recovery program, gave over 13 billion to help european nations recover from WWII, this money came from the US. Great britian and France recieved the most money. Also the USSR refused the plan -
Creation of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. The military alliance, which provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression -
Soviets create & test nuclear bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name First Lightning. soon after this the US relized that the USSR also had an atomic bomb. -
Korean War
Lasted until july 27, 1953.This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them -
US creates and tests the hydrogen bomb
The hydrogen bomb is weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. America had lost being nuclear supremacy, and wanted a way to get ahead. November 1, 1952, the United States successfully detonated "Mike," the world's first hydrogen bomb, on the Elugelab Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands. The 10.4-megaton thermonuclear device, instantly vaporized an entire island and left behind a crater more than a mile wide. The incredible explosive forc -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members, The Warsaw Pact remained intact until 1991 -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and the United States. The war began in 1954, after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War More than 3 million people were killed in the Vietnam War; more than half were Vietnamese civilians.
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Bay of Pigs
On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista , the nation’s American-backed president. April 1961, the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over the invasion did not go well: The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete "Antifascistischer Schutzwall," between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western "fascists" from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state -
Cuban Missle Crisis
U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites,under construction but nearing completion,housed missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the United States, the United States would not tolerate the existence of the missile sites currently in place. the crisis escalated to a breaking point . October the quarantine of Cuba began, all USSR ships slowed down, or revered, but 1 this ship decedid not to luanch a missle even though it was told to. -
US sends a man to the moon
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he set took his first step, Armstrong famously said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John Kennedy announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 60's -
Olympic Rivalry: 1972 basketball game
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final was one of the most controversial in Olympic history and was the first ever loss for Team USA since the sport began Olympic play, US was down 49-48, US in final seconds scored, score was 50-49, with little time left soviets in bound the ball 3 times, with a long pass in soviets score, with lots of controversy. -
1980 Olympic Hockey game
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during. The Soviet and American teams were natural rivals due to the decades-old Cold War. The United States team, defeated the Soviet team, who had won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament since 1954. -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased.Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. However, Gorbachev was disappointed in the dissolution of his nation and resigned from his job on December 25. On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time.
