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The Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill visited Westminster College as the Green Lecturer and delivered Sinews of Peace, which was a message heard around the world that went down in history as the "Iron Curtain Speech." -
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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and developed on July 12, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. -
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Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
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The Berlin Airlift
At the end of the second world war, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany.The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin. -
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Communist take over China
The Chinese Communist Revolution or the Chinese revolution of 1949 was a revolution in China that was led by the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong which resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on the first of October 1949. -
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The Korean War
On June 25 1950 the Korean War began when some 75000 soldiers from the North Korean peoples army poured across the 38th parallel which was the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic peoples Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea´s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned it was a war against international communism -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
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Revolt in Czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear armed Soviet missiles on Cuba just 90 miles from U.S shores. On October 22, 1962, John Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles and his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat. -
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The Cultural Revolution
In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. Believing that current Communist leaders were taking the party, and China itself, in the wrong direction, Mao called on the nation’s youth to purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society and revive the revolutionary spirit that had led to victory in the civil war