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Truman Doctrine opposes communist expansion
President Truman’s promise to aid nations struggling against communist movements. The doctrine came about from the request of funds to support Greek and Turkish efforts to fight communism -
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The Cold War Timeline
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The Marshall plan aids Europe’s economies
The congress approved the Marshall plan, a foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after WWII. It gave about $13 billion in grants and loans to nations in Western Europe. The plan provided food to reduce famine, fuel to heat houses and factories, and money to jump-start economic growth. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift supplied West Berlin with basic necessities after the Soviet Union blocked off the city to try to force West Berlin to give up and fall to communism. -
Her mother's birth
Her mother was born -
NATO formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed by the U.S. and many western European countries in order to defend Europe against the Soviet aggression. -
Korean War begins
North Korea invades South Korea as their forces attacked across the 38th parallel. The 90,000 North Korean troops were armed with powerful tanks and other Soviet weapons. They attacked in order to have South Korea fall into communism. -
Warsaw Pact form
The Warsaw Pact is formed by the Soviet Union and the other communist countries in eastern Europe as a military defense organization, as a means to counter NATO. -
Creation of Berlin wall
The Berlin wall was the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. The berlin wall was the symbolic boundary between democracy and communism during the cold war. -
Her brother was born
Her mother gave birth to her first child -
Get Smart tv show
Recording
The show was about two agents that worked for the goverment that tried to get spies that secretly worked in government. -
Born
Her mother pushed her out on this day -
Nixon visits China
President Richard Nixon, the first U.S. leader to visit communist China. This leads to a thaw in the Cold War relations -
The A team TV show
One of her favorite TV shows during the cold war that she watched a lot -
Graduated High School
She earned her high school diploma -
Red Dawn film
A film about US being isolated after several European nations drew from the NATO and at the same time the Soviet Union was creating the Warsaw Pact. A movie that she watched during cold war -
First son birth
She birth her first child, a son. -
Married
She got married to her first husband -
Berlin Wall falls
The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of communism in Europe. The wall that had blocked travel from communist East Berlin to democratic West Berlin. Within a year, East and West Germany would reunite as one single nation. -
The Hunt for Red October film
A film about a Soviet submarine captain who commands a submarine called Red October. Also a film that she watched during the cold war -
First daugther birth
She gave birth to her first daughter -
Cold War ends
Supporters of Communism stage an unsuccessful coup. Soviet Union is then abolished and Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.
