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The Truman Doctrine
Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from enemy forces. -
The Marshall Plan
The United States plan to aid the Western parts of Europe. The US ended up giving $13 billion to help rebuild their economies. -
Berlin Airlift
When the Soviets built a wall around the city of Berlin to keep the US troops from getting in or out of the City. The surrounding US troops had constant airdrops that brought supplies for the troops -
Soviet Union gets the Atomic Bomb
This is the first test done in the Soviet Union using the Atomic Bomb. This scared the american people because they didn't think the Soviet Union would develope the technology so quickly. -
Communist Revolution of China
Mao Zedong led a revolution against the Nationalist party of China, and created the People's Republic of China which caused an upheval of the current government. China then slowly transitioned to communism. -
Korean War
In which the Northern part of Korea invaded the Southern part. The Soviets backed up North Korea while the American troops backed up the Southern Koreans. This was considered the first event of the Cold War -
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
The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused chief committee counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Elvis Debuts on the Ed Sullivan
He signed up for three shows which will allow the whole country be introduced to him. This is where he got his beginnings and slowly transitioned more into the media with movies and concerts. -
The Launch of Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artifical earth sateilite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elipitical low earth orbit, it was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pluses. -
The Kitchen Debate
The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges between then Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park, Moscow. -
U-2 Incident
An American U-2 spy plane was shot down in a Soviet Union airspace. These events forced Eisenhower to admit to the Soviets that the CIA was sending planes over for spy missions. The piolt of the plane was sentenced 10 years in a Soviet prision. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
The Soviets built the wall to separate the western and eastern parts of Germany. This wall acted as a tanagible "iron curtain" for the cold war. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
SALT Treaty
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT treaty which they agreed to limit the number of missles in their arsenals. -
Miracle on Ice
This is where during the 1980's Olympics the United States Hockey team won gold over the long time dominants, the Soviets. It was a close game most of the match, but the US won over the Soviets with a 4-3 score. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
As the cold war began to thaw across Europe the Eastern part of Germany decided that they wanted to mend relations with the west, so the wall was taken apart.
