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Glasnost
Glasnost was a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbatchev was a former Soviet statesman. -
The Tuman Doctrine
In March 1947, President Truman appeared before Congress and used Kennan's Containment policy as the basis for what became known as the Truman Doctrine. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion (approximately $160 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. Marshall Plan and UN. -
The Berlin Blockade
Set up to block the Western Allies railways, roads, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. Came aboout because of the Berlin Wall. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. NASA worked with NATO. -
Korean War
The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. A demilitarized zone is an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities or personnel. The landing at Inchon was an an amphibious invasion and battle. -
Senator MacCarthy
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Senator Joseph McCarthy was American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
Gulf of Tankin, Resolution, Ho Chin Minh, Vietcong, and the Draft all are or came about because of the Vietnam War. They may have even been the source for the Vietnam War. -
Cuba
Cuba is a place under Florida. Bay of Pigs Invasion is what it sounds like and that is an invasion. Nikita Kruschev and a Super Power relate to Cuba becuase they made an impact on Cuba. Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba comprises the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud and several archipelagos. Havana is the capital of Cuba and its largest city. -
Cuba
Fidel Castro was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. JFK was commonly known as Jack Kennedy, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Che Guerva was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. -
The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
The SALT Agreement
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. -
Communism Collapses
This was the time that the Berlin Wall came down. It was the most potent symbol of the Cold War division of Europe--came down. Earlier that day, the communist authorities of the German Democratic Republic had announced the removal of travel restrictions to democratic West Berlin. Thousands of East Germans streamed into the West, and in the course of the night, celebrants on both sides of the wall began to tear it down. August 13, 1961. USSR was the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan, Star Wars. -
Korea #2
We are still in an Armistice with Korea. General MacArthur was one of the most widely known generals during World War 2.
