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End of WWII/beginning of Arms Race
Conflicts between Nazis and rest of world end while conflicts between Democratic and communist beliefs arise -
Truman Doctrine
that the US would help any other Democratic countries in need -
Marshall Plan
The US sent vast amount of money to 16 other countries to try to turn them back democratic -
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
Berlin Blockade/Airlift -
NATO
An alliance between ten Western European countries, the US, and Canada that said any attack against any one of these countries would be seen as an attack against them. -
Korean War
It was the first major proxy war -
Warsaw Pact
it called for military cooperation among communist countries in Europe -
Berlin Wall
It was a wall to try to stop east Germans from escaping to West Berlin to get out of the communist part of Germany -
Cuba
Cuba decided they were communist and the US blocked them off. The US then decides to go through with the Bay of Pigs Invasion to try to make the country democratic, then the US blockades Cuba from the rest of the world -
Mikhail Gorbachev
A new Soviet leader, took office in 1985. He tried to improve the Soviet Union with new laws like glasnost which gave increased freedom of the press, religion, and speech
