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Truman Doctrine
The Truman doctrine was an American foreign policy created to stop Soviet imperialism during the cold war. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of time when the US and the Soviet Union no longer trusted each other or woked together instead they mistrusted each other and it was a struggle for supremecy. -
Creation of NATO
Defensive alliance to stop the spread of communism. NATO means North American Treaty Organization. -
Arms Race
Countries raced to create the largest most dangerous nuclear bomb. -
Korean War
The Korean war was between north and south korea. The United nations, US forcefully led, fought for the South and China fought for the North with a little bit of help from the Soviet Union. -
Vietnam War
Also known as the second Indochina war, was a war to keep communism from spreading through other countries. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a competition for spaceflight capability supremacy between the Soviets and the United States. -
Launching of Sputnik
The soviet union successfull launched the worlds first artificial satellite -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A failed attempt to over throw Fidel Castro by Cuban peasants. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The flow of soviet weapons- many nuclear- increased greatly
