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Truman Doctrine
President Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover. -
Marshall Plan
This was a program of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country. The plan was rejected by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country. So in the end, the aid was given solely to Western Europe. -
Berlin Blockade
Russia’s response to the merger of those countries was to cut all road and rail links to that sector. This meant that those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. Food was brought to Western Berliners by US and UK airplanes, an exercise known as the Berlin Airlift. -
The end of the Chinese Civil War
It was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China, supported by Untied Stares, against the Chinese Communist Party, supported by the USSR. It was an armed conflict that ended in 1949, resulting in a Communist. -
NATO/OTAN
NATO was AN organization created during the WWII times by Great Britain, France and other countries, when They started seeing the dangerous power of the Soviet Unión. In 1949 It was joined by the United States. -
Korean War
The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea with the support of communist block, while South Korea was defended by U.S. -
Treaty of San Francisco
The treaty was signed on 1952. It ended Japan's role as an imperial power, allocated compensation to Allied nations and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes during World War II, ended the Allied post-war occupation of Japan, and returned full sovereignty to it. -
Guerra de Vietnam
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It was a conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the north was supported by the Soviet Union and other communist states, while the south was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union with seven other Soviet satellite states in Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Though Albania withdrew years later. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People’s Republic, supported by he United Stated, and the policies caused by the government’s subordination to the Soviet Union. -
The space race
The Space Race was a competition between the two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight, and space exploration higher capability. At the end It was USSR Who sent the first living being to the space and returned It alive, winning the space race. -
Checkpoint Charly
In the 27th of October in 1961, Soviet and American tanks stood 100 yards apart on either side of the checkpoint. Though it ended peacefully some time later with a with-drawal of the both countries. -
Crisis of the missiles
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two powers came the closest to a nuclear confrontation. -
The Arab-Israeli conflict
It became entangled in the global rivalry between the U.S and the Soviet Union. Americans thought that the Soviets wanted to exploit the Arab-Israeli conflict to dominate the region, so the conflicted escalated when the two superpowers joined it. -
Czechoslovac invasion
On August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by the Soviet Union and Three other countries members of the Warsaw pact. The invasion stopped Prague Spring liberalisation reforms and strengthened the authoritarian wing of the Communist. America jumped in to help the invaded country -
Brezhnev Doctrine
The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed that any threat to “socialist rule” in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to all of them, and therefore, following that doctrine justifies the intervention of fellow socialist states and outbreak of a conflict. -
Oil Crisis
The main reason was the drop in export earnings. The devaluation of the US dollar undermined the export earnings of OPEC countries. The reduction in oil production helped stabilize OPEC's revenues. -
The Helsinki Accords
The Helsinki Accords were an effort to reduce tension between the Soviet and Western blocs by securing their common acceptance of the post-World War II status quo in Europe. During this cold war It was mostly related to the conflict between USSR and U.S. -
The invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. Unites States joined the conflict to defend the country from USSR’ influences. -
Perestroika
It was a program that consisted on turning the Soviet Union in 500 days in a market economy, thanks to varios procedures, economic changes and new country relationships. Private property was acepted in basic personal articles.