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Buffer States of the USSR
Communist world was limited to the Soviet Union, it rapidly spread to Central and Eastern Europe, forming a protective buffer zone for the USSR. #Conntainment Theory -
U.S. aid to Greece
Congress appropriated financial aid support to the economies and militaries. #Detente -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. #Detente -
Molotov Plan
System was created to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe. #Detente -
U.S. aid to Turkey
Economic and Technical operation agreement was signed. The relationship between United States and Turkey was able to advance. #Detente -
Marshall Plan
Gave about $13 billion to help the economic recovery of Europe for 3 years. #Detente -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin airlift lasted for over a year and carried over 2.3 million tons or cargo into the west berlin. #Brinkmanship -
NATO established
The U.S., Canada, and its European allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The alliance between countries of the Western bloc was a political show of force against the USSR and its allies. #Domino Theory -
USSR gets atomic bomb
It was coded as "First Lighting" and in order to see how much damage it would cause they constructed buildings and bridges. #Deterrence -
Communist win China
The Communist party gained control after winning the Chinese Civil War. The type of communism in China at the time is often called Maoism, which was heavly based on Marxism. #Domino Theory -
Korean War
Armed forces from North Korea smashed into it with South Korea and that's what started the Korean war. U.S. acting under the auspices of the United Nations quickly defended South Korea and fought a frustrating war for three years. #MAD -
Coup in Iran
In order to overthrow the democratic prime minister, it went in favor to strengthen the monarch. #MAD -
Atomic Bomb
The Soviet Union detonated it's first atomic bomb, at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan. #Brinkmanship & MAD -
Communist in Guatemala
The election of Castillo was what they did to try to remove Arbenz, so they could save Guatemala. Which American officials beleived to be an attempt to gain part of the Western hemisphere. #Detente -
Communist Angola
It was an underground political party. Then went into the peoples movement to the liberation of angola. #Deterrence -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Soviet Union consolidated power amoung Eastern countries under a rival alliance. #Brinkmanship -
Beginning of troops in Vietnam
This was known as the second Indochina war against america. It was the longest US combat. #MAD -
Suez Canal crisis
Suez Canal crisis was an international crisis it was controlled by French and British interests. #Domino Theory -
Hungary (Rebellion)
A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People republic and on soviet-imposed policies. #MAD -
Sputnik
Sputnik is named after the Russian word satellite. It was launched to correspond with the International Geophysical Year. #Detente -
Cuba (Missile Crisis)
Nikita Khrushchev’s offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. #Domino Theory -
Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
The rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship.That was led by Sandinista National Liberation Front which then lasted around 20 years. #Brinkmanship -
China explodes atomic bomb
China had exploded the atomic bomb after they had successfully tested the nuclear test. The U.S. didn't find it surprising because they indicated them doing it. #Brinkmanship -
Coup in Chile
It was a watershed event in history for chile and the cold war. Following the tension between the right controlled congress. #Domino Theory -
End of troops in Vietnam
It was known as the American War Saigon. It fell to the communist a conflict with Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. #Domino Theory -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The soviet union sent thousands of troops in the afghanistan. They assumed complete military and political control. #Deterrence -
War in El Salvador
it started with a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front or "umbrella organization" of several left-wing groups. #Brinkmanship -
Evil Empire Speech
Ronald Reagan planned on exceeding the Soviets Union strategic and global military capabilities. #Detente -
Star Wars (S.D.I)
This program was invented to develop an anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, mainly from the Soviet Union. #Deterrence -
Iran Contra Affair
It began with the confrontation of Ronald Raegan and the democratic congress.It was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. #Brinkmanship -
Fall of the Berlin wall
More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin to participate. People used hammers and pricks to knock down parts of the wall. #Detente -
Fall of the USSR
The cold war powered economic and political struggles between the eastern and western blocs, until the fall of the soviet union. #Domino Theroy
