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The Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan nations were assisted greatly in their economic recovery. From 1948 through 1952 European economies grew at an unprecedented rate. -
Creation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization the right to trade goods -
Soviets create & test nuclear bomb
Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb -
Chine become Communist
The fall of mainland China to communism in 1949 led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the "PRC" for decades. -
The Korean War
Communist influence the land north of the 38th parallel, and south korea was declared as a right to vote -
Vietnam War
this war was the fist telvised war and was known as the domino effect it was a war of commuisume -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance' -
Nikita Khrushchev visits the United States
Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States -
Bay of Pigs
The U.S did not like cuba becoming a communism govorment and was agenst them. -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
the seporation of east / west germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the fight to keep nucular wepons out of cuba -
The Six Day War
The outcome of the Six-Day war was an unexpected one. Arab nations who had planned an attack with full confidence that they would win the war. Were surprised by Israel’s quick and successful tactics. -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
The deconsutution of the laws and perpuse of the wall -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism -
MY BIRTHDAY
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