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The Marshall Plan
a program designed by the U.S. A plan for the U.S. to heko European countries rebulid their economy after World War 2 -
Creation of NATO
Formed to have an alliance in Europe because of the threats of the Soviet Union and the spread of communism -
The Korean War
A battle fought between North and South Korea. 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel. UN got involved for both North and South Korea -
Warsaw Pact
A renewal of mutual assistance, divided powers among Germany and Eastern Europe -
Vietnam War
struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States attempting to prevent the spread of communism. -
Bay of Pigs
1,300 exiles armed with United States weapons landed at Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the southern coast of Cuba. Quicky defeated by Castro's Army -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
It was made to seperate the communist Eastern Europe from the democrate Western Europe -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest the war ever came to a nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at its highest point ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. Thanks to John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev it never happened -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Berliners climbed atop the wall, cheering and dancing, rushed through what had once been heavily guarded checkpoints. Berliners pounded away with hammers. In 1990, the two German nations again became one -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The day after the president resigned, the Soviet Union was dissoluted
