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the yalta conference
Stalin promised eastern europe their freedom and didn't carry through. this act broke the alliance between the US and the USSr. -
"containment" truman doctrine
US policy to stop the spread of communism. Truman promised to protect countries that were in danger of becoming communist. -
Marshall pLan
The marshall plan was a plan to reconstruct Europe but also containing the spread of communism in the process. billions of dollars was given towards the marshall plan. however it ended 6 months earlier than planned. George Marshall whom came up with the plan received a nobel prize for it. -
berlin blockade
stalin tried to block products from the aalied nations. the US was angry yet didn't take actions as in to prevent an other war. -
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
NATO was formed in april it was of 28 nations it was in a way made to maiontain peace however the USSR backfired by creating the Warsaw pact. -
Nuclear arms race and H bomb
The USSR was the first nation to create a bomb however the us made one under truman. -
The Vietnam War
the US entered the Vietnam War as a way to prevent communism and to support their ally France whom was fighting vietnam around that time. in the end the Vietnamese lost thousand more people soldiers and civilians than the US did. -
ho chi minh
he was influenced by Karl marx and created the Ho chi minh trail. he also wantyed to spread communism throughout the south -
Prague Spring
young people were lead by alexander dubcek to gain their freedom from russia however russians killed thousands of them. -
Richard nixon and the detente
nixon polisy the detente was a way to keep a form of togetherness between nations. -
soviet war in afghanistan
told that the Afghans were going to be liberated from communist occupation the Soviets invade Afhanistan in order to protect the easy access they had to indian trade and middle Easters. -
The End of the Communist Party
By the 1980s, it was pretty obvious that communism in USSR was not really working out. Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the USSR and he gave the people more freedom and help enede the cold war. it was the end of the communist party thus the end of Russia as we know it.
