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united nations
the united nations were formed to maintain peace and develop friendly relations among the nations -
truman doctrine
truman asked congrees for 400 million dollars too aid turkey and Greece with -
marshalls plan
made to provide aid to western Europe and transferred 13 billion dollars in economic recovers for after world war 2 -
NATO forms
it's a military alliance between everyone that's in it -
korean war
north korea invaded south korea and Truman got mad and sent troops to Korea, china got involved and it got messy -
space race
it was a race to who could get to the moon between the soviets and the us -
bay of pigs
it was a failed military invasion on the coast of Cuba, the invasion was by the USA they had done it too remove cubas leader from power -
berlin wall goes up
it separated east and west berlin and Germany did it too keep the people in the east in because they were all going to the west -
usa entered the vietnam war
us president Eisenhower sent troops to Vietnam to help out the south from the north and try to hold them back and win they deployed the military assistance advisory group to go help them -
soviet invades afghanistan
the war started with the soviets and it ended with no winners -
berlin wall goes down
the people in east berline were free to cross over to west berline because the cold war was cooling down