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Formation of the united nations
used to prevent world war by creating something peaceful to solve with -
Iron curtain
Churchill called the line between US and its allies and Russia and its allies the iron curtain -
arms race
a competition for superior weapons mostly between US and soviet union for chemical weopons -
Truman doctrine
american foreign policy that countered geopolitical expansion during the cold war -
Marshall Plan
united states gives 13 billion to help rebuild western European economy's after WWII -
Berlin Blockade
the soviets blocked west allies from roadways, waterways, and sectors of west Berlin during the cold war. -
Berlin airlift
Truman ordered a massive airlift of supplies to west Berlin and failed the Berlin blockade -
NATO
further communist expansion prompted US and 11 other nations to form the north Atlantic treaty organization -
Korean war
War between south Korea and North Korea after North Korea invaded south Korea -
Joseph Stalin dies
the general of the central committee of the soviet union dies -
Vietnam war
war between south Congo and Vietnam to reunify america joined to help prevent spread of communism. -
space race
tension between soviets and US as soviets launch rocket into space US readies a rocket to show science and technology power -
sputnik
was the first artificial satellite to orbit earth. this was set off by the soviet union -
U-2 incedent
a spy plane sent to spy on Russia during the cold war was shot down by Russian SAM missiles -
Bay of pigs invasion
during the cold war 1400 Cuban exiles were trained to invade cuba -
Berlin wall start
start of the construction of the Berlin wall in Germany this wall separated east Berlin from the communist west in the cold war. -
Cuban missile crisis
13 day confrontation between the soviet union and United states in Cuba that created a scare of nuclear war during the cold war -
soviet invasion of afghanistan
lasted 9 years when the soviets invaded Afghanistan against the democratic party -
Berlin Wall destruction
the destruction symbolized the end of the cold war -
USSR breakup
oil and gas revenue dropped and the soviet union broke up and now European states gained political control
