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Iron curtain speech
Winston Churchill was concerned about the soviets taking over eastern Europe and creating talitarian government and he wanted the United States to be involvd. The Iron Curtain was a division between western European capitalist countries and eastern European communist countries. -
Truman Doctrin
United States president Harry Truman, gave money to any country to fight against Communism -
Marshall Plan
The U.S gives money to European countries to help rebuild their economy. United States gave over 12 billion dollars in economic assistance to help rebuild the countries after the world war. -
Berlin Airlift
The United States begin a big airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of Berlin for at least a year, America provided things for over 2 million people. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and other nations to provide security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Communist take over China
Communist started to take over China in 1949. It was a revolution in China that was led by the Communist of China and Mao Zedong. When Mao and the Communists took over China. after decades of civil war and Japanese occupation, the country was in terrible shape. Roads, railways, farms and factories where in a shocking state of disrepair and treasury was bankrupt after its entire gold reserves were taken away to Taiwan by the Nationalists. -
Korean War
War between North Korea and South Korea. The war began when North Korean invaded South Korea. Korea was then split into two separate parts. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was intensified by the ongoing cold war between United States and Soviet Union. More then 3 million soldiers lost their lives. -
Revolt in Hungary
A big protest against the Soviet Union. Around 2,500 Hungarians died and 200,000 fled to the west. -
Sputnik
The first earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union and orbited about three weeks before the batteries had died, and then for two more months before coming back to the atmosphere. -
Great Leap Forward
Moved families into communes and was a disaster due to poor planning. Communes falsely reported high production of food to impress Mao and it left them starving. -
Berlin Blockade
About 2.5 million people fled East Germany to escape Communist rule. East German leaders ordered streets torn up and temporary red blocks built. -
Apollo Program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program that would allow humans to go on the moon and return back safety. The first person landed on the moon from 1969-1972. -
Cuben Missile Crisis
A thirteen day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union by the American discovery of soviet ballisic missile deployment. Relations between U.S adn Cuba remain strained. -
Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong encouraged red guards to purge interrectuals and artist. Red guards targeted anyone they felt went againts Moa's teachings. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union led a warsaw pact troops invation of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in prague.
