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The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. -
end of ww1
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The Red Scare
"Red Scare" was the promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism -
the Yalta conference
Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met and agreed to to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began to plans for a post-war world -
Presidents in Office
Harry S. Truman an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States -
creating the united nations
the united nations was a global organization that brings together representatives from 50 countries to confront common challenges and to manage responsibilities -
The Long Telegraph
George Kennan, the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
Iron Curtain
the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe -
Marshall plan
a program by which the united states gave large amounts of economic aid to Europe countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of ww2 -
Truman Doctrine
the Truman doctrine was a american foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter the soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift. Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
the creation of NATO
north Atlantic treaty organization 12 countries Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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McCarthyism
a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea -
Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover is a civil defense training film that was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s. It advised students on what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion -
The Rosenberg's
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union -
The Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold war. the members included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
U-2 Incident
a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
