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Period: to
Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
USA would provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism -
Marshall Plan
USA give large amounts of money to Europe to help them rebuild after World War II -
NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Military providing mutual help if attacked. -
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance of communist to block other nations -
Sputnik 1
First satellite to orbit the earth created by russia -
U2 Incident
USSR shot down american spy plane -
John F Kennedy
35 president of the united states and was assassinated 1963 -
Eisenhower
34th President of the United States and was an army polition -
Yuri Gagarin
Russian pilot and was the first human to journey into outer space. -
Bay of Pigs
USA would invade Cuba and lead revolt against Castro. JFK gave orders for Cuban invasion, and it was a failure -
Berlin wall
Built to keep East Germany from fleeing to west Germany -
Cuban Missile crisis
USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
Krushchev
Krushchev lead the soviet union during the cold war -
Detente
The name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Vietnamization
Agreement with North Vietnam to withdraw USA forces -
Fidel Castro
Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister -
Perestroika
political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
Glasnost
practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
East germany opened to the west and ended the cold war -
COMECON
Economy organization from 1941 to 1991 under leadership of Russia