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Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba
Fidel Castro was a leader that was communist and sided with USSR in the communist party. He was a dictator who did things that got him anembargo with his closest country America. -
The Marshall Plan
George Marshall proposed in a speech at Harvard University that European nations create a plan for their economic reconstruction and that the United States provide economic assistance -
Creation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization or nato was created by United States, Canada, and several other countries. It was at first created to provide security against Soviet Union but is also was used in WWII to discus events and a possible end for a war. -
Soviets create & test nuclear bomb
This event sparked the start of the cold war basicaly it was a intimidation contest between the united states and USSR in which country could test and build up as many atom bombs as possible. -
Chine become Communist
When this happened the American public was angered at the government saying how USA spent so much time focusing on Europe and not Asia. This eventualy lead us into tw other wars. -
Korean War
The korean war was a war that was against communisum and was a war when no one really won. it started and ended at the 27the parallel. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
the warsaw pact was a defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
vietnam war
The vietnam war was also a war about communisum and was the only televised war. It started off as a war that we were fine to go into but later turned into a war that many hated due to the draft and many lives lost. -
Soviet launch Sputnik
This was durign the period of the cold war in which it was a competition to intimidate the others the USSR lauched a satalite to intimidate us at the time to prove their capabilities. -
bay of pigs
The bay of pigs was a military assisted invasion of Cuba by rebls supplied by the CIA. It was an unsuccessful invasion that all the rebles were caputred and the united states said they had no involvement in the situation at all. -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
The berlin wall was a wall that was put up by the GDR (German Democratic Republic) to prevent berlins people from fleeing from one city to another it compleatly shut down the city. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The cuban missle crisis was an event when we found out Russia had nuclear missles in cuba pointed at America. When we found out about this we made them disasemble them or face war. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
This was intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. It was discussed between 2 superpowers during 1969. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
the berlin wall fell due to the fact that the US were able to get supplies to its part of Berlin because of air drops. -
Collapse of the USSR
The USSR was coming to a collapse because they were running low on money and their economy was failing it was eventually divided into more individual countries.
