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The Cold War

By Asterio
  • Red Scare/ McCarthyism

    Red Scare/ McCarthyism
    During the war america had been on the alert for enemy spies and sabotage secret destruction of propert or interference with working factories. Joseph McCathy announced he had a list of 57 state names who were spies.
  • Communist take contol of China

    Communist take contol of China
    Mao Zedong fought to over throw Emperor Chiang. In october 1949 Mao set up the peoples republic of China. By december the communist had driven all of Chiangs forces from the chinese mainland.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    President Truman asked congress for $400 million dollars in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan
    George Marshall proposed a large scale plan to help europe rebuild it's economy.
  • NATO

    NATO
    By joinging NATO the United States made it clear that it would help to defend the nations of western Europe against any Soviet aggression
  • Berlin wall

    Berlin wall
    Many East Berlines fled to West Berlin because of Communism. That embrassed Germany and the Soviet Union so over the next 12 years they started built the Berlin wall.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    The Soviet Union Formed a military alliances called the Warsaw pact. The Soviet union demanded complete loyalty from its Warsaw pact neighbors.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    In 1957 a Soviet rocket was launched Sputnik the worlds first artificial satellite.
  • NASA

    NASA
    America built Nasa to compete against the Soviet union
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    American leaders worried that Cuba and the soviet Union were planning on invading the U.S
  • U-2 spies

    U-2 spies
    Gary Powers an american spy was sent to prison for 10 years because he was caught taking pictures of the Soviet Union. But he didn't surve all that time because Russia and america had a spy trade.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    North vietnam went into communism then attacked south vietnam
  • Cuban Missile crisis

    Cuban Missile crisis
    Had shaken both America and the Soviet union officials. In al the years of the cold war the world never came as close to a full scale nuclear war.
  • Star wars

    Star wars
    was the defence meconizm to shoot down Soveit missels from space.
  • glasnost

    glasnost
    a policy of speaking out and honestly.
  • Korean war

    Korean war
    North Korea went into Communism . Later turned on South Korea trunin into the Korean war.
  • Berlin Airlift/ Berlin blockade.

    Berlin Airlift/ Berlin blockade.
    In responce Stalin closed all the roads,railways and river routes connecting Berlin to West Germany. In the end Truman decided to set up a huge airlift. Day after day planes flew in food,fuel and aother supplies to 2 million Berliners.
  • Salt1/ salt 2

    Salt1/ salt 2
    a treaty that agrred to limite the number of nuclear wear heads amd missles
  • Fall of Communism

    Fall of Communism
    All of the countries joined together to take out Russia after its attack on poland