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The Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
The Marchall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of March 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
Soviet Union Gets the Atomic Bomb
Soviet Union exploded its first bomb. It came as a great shock to the U.S. because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to posses nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
Korean War
between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union -
The Execution of the Rosenbergs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951, are put to death in the electric chair. The execution marked the dramatic finale of the most controversial espionage case of the Cold War. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954 -
Warsaw Pact
was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Launch of Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. -
Kitchen Debate
series of impromptu exchanges (through interpreters) between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow -
U-2 Incident
happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
Building of Berlin Wall
Communist East German built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba -
SALT Treaty
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Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement. first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals -
The Miracle on Ice
Name in the American popular culture fo r a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York on Friday Fedruary 22. The U.S. national team made up of amateur and collegate players and led by coach Herb Brooks defeated the Soviet Union national team which had won gold. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West -
Communist Revolution of Change
