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The Cold War
The war between the United States and the Soviet Union post WWII. -
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Berlin Airlift
The United States said that we would help countries occupied by communism and as a result we dropped supplies they needed for a span of time. -
Marshall Plan
The plan for the United States to help countries who ask for it that have been taken over by communism. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed
Military alliance between France, Denmark, Canada, Belgium, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, United States, and Great Britain is formed. -
The Korean War Starts
The United States assist southern Vietnam during a civil war with North Vietnam who is being directly supported by both communist China and communist Russia. -
The United States tests its first H-Bomb
The United States earns a shortlived victory in the arms race with communist Russia. -
The Warsaw Pact is formed
The Warsaw pact is an alliance between Soviet Union, Albania, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as an opposition to NATO. -
Soviets launch Sputnik
The Soviet Union successfully launched the worlds first artificial satellite. -
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The Berlin Wall
Communist Soviet Union was in control of parts of Germany. They were angered with the amount of people fleeing so they built a wall to keep people in. -
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Cuban Missle Crisis
We had missles pointed at the Soviet Union, so they had missles pointed at us in Cuba. We used this information as an advantage to rile the people up against communism. We both disarmed. -
Dentente
meaning relaxation, the period of improved relations between the US and Soviet Union. -
SALT I is signed
The Soviet Union and United States sign a treaty agreeing to limit the quantity of nuclear missles in their arsenals. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev came into power as General Secretary of the Soviet Union. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed
This treaty is signed between the United States and the Soviet Union agreeing to disarm all missles within a certain range. -
Al Qaeda
Islamist Militant Organization -
The Iron Curtain begins to crumble in Europe
The communist reign of europe begins to disarm and lose power. The choice was made to feed the people. -
The Soviet Union collapses
The once very stable and strong Soviet Union has been disarmed and their power brought to a halt. -
European Union
Political and economic partnership between 28 european states covering most of the continent. -
United States invades Iraq
The Unites States invades Iraq as a part of the war against terrorism and in attempt to disarm Al Qaeda along with the president Saddam Hussein. -
Al Qaeda attacks the United States
Al Qaeda attacked the twin towers highjacking an airplane, tried to attack the pentagon but the plane was taken over by a passenger and landed in a field. The begining of our War against Terrorism. -
Containment
The united states idea of stopping the spread of communism -
Perestroika
word meaning listen, also a political reform in the 1980's within the Soviet Union -
Saddam Hussein
The president of Iraq
