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The Russian Revolution
A group of revolutions that caused the rise of the soviet union -
Potsdam conference
The head of the US, USSR, and the UK discussed how to administer Germany -
Atomic bombs/Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Two American atomic bombings on japan's cities that killed many civilians and helped end WW2 -
Iron Curtain
A metaphorical wall that separated the Communist influenced side of Europe from the American allies or neutral countries -
Truman Doctrine
A document that was created to stop the USSR's expansion and the spread of communism -
Hollywood 10
10 motion picture producers, directors, and screenwriters that went to prison for not answering questions regarding there possible communist beliefs. -
The Marshall Plan
A plan were the U.S gave thier western allies over $12 billion to rebuild after WW2 -
Berlin blockade and airlift
the Berlin blockade blocked the western allies from roads and railways and canal access, so the U.S airlift flew over the blockade and supplied their allies from the air -
NATO
NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization consisted of 29 members from Northern America and Europe that all were against the spread of communism -
Korean War
A war between North and South Korea as a product of the cold war, Korea was split up in to two parts -
Soviet bomb test
A test the soviets used to see if their nuclear bombs worked during the cold war. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
A policy that stated if we were attacked we would attack back with a significantly greater force -
Army-McCarthy hearings
a series of hearings held by the US to investigate the conflict between the US army and the senator Joseph McCarthy -
Warsaw Pact
a defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe -
The Vietnam war
A war between south and north Vietnam were america helped its southern allies to overtake the communist north -
Hungarian Revolution
a revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet policies -
Khruschev Takes over
Khruschev takes over the soviet union as the first secretary of the communist party leading them in the cold war -
U2 Incident
Francis Gary Powers, an American who was shot down over the Soviet Union while flying a CIA spy plane is released by the Soviets in exchange for the U.S. release of a Russian spy. -
The bay of pigs
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the C.I.A sponsored paramilitary group -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
The Cuban missile crisis
a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba -
Detente under Nixon
a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively and took decisive form when President Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Union -
The Reagan Doctrine
a strategy implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
A speech were Ronald Reagan went to the Berlin wall and demanded it was taken down -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall is being taken down with the help of Austria
