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The Vietnam War
Vietnamese Nationalists & Communists joined to fight the French armies. In 1954 the French suffered a major military defeat at Dien Bien Phu. Surrendered to Ho. The fall of one to communism qould lead to the fall of its neighbors. -
The iron curtain speech
Truman pressed Stalin to permit free election in eastern Europe.The soviet leader refused. A speech in 1946 Stalin thought that communism and the capitalist should not exist in the same world. Europe now is divided between East an West. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman contrasted democracy w/ communism. His support for countries that rejected communism was the Truman Doctrine. Some opponent objected to American interference.Congress immediately authorized more than $400 million aid to Turkey & Greece -
The Marshall Plan
U.s secretary of State George Marshall proposed that the U.S give aid to needy European countries.The assistance program called the Marshall Plan provides food, machinery & other material to rebuild Western Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
Allied planes took off and landed every 3 minutes in West Berlin. On 200000 flights they braught more than 2 million tons of food,fuel and medicine and even gift to West Berliners. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade heightened Western Europe's fears of Soviets aggression. Ten western Europeans nations joined w/ the U.S and Canada to form a defensive military alliance. Called NATO. -
NATO
Ten western European nations joined with the U.S and Canada to form a defensive military alliance.An attack on any NATO member would be with armed force by all the member nations. -
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Korean War
North Korea swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea. S.K asked the U.N to intervene.The same month that N.K took over Peninsula MacArthur launched a surprised attack. Half of N.K surrendered and the rest retreated. UN pushed them near the Yalu River at the Chinese border. Chinese felt threatened, they sent troops & outnumbered the UN forces. They pushed UN and NK out, then Mac Arthur sent an attack. UN & NK signed an cease-fire agreement. -
Revolt in Hungary
Hungarian army joined protesters to overthrow Hungary's soviet-controlled government.Budapest mobs waved the Hungarian flags with the communist hammer and sickle emblem cut out. -
Sputnik
Soviets announced the development programs of a rocket that could travel great distance. The soviets used an ICBM to push "sputnik" the first unmanned satellite above earths atmosphere. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
After the "Bay of pigs" invasion the leader of the soviets thought they would not resist the soviet expansion in Latin American. Leader Khrushchev began to build a 42 missile sites in Cuba but then a spy noticed the site. President John F. Kennedy said any missiles close to the U.S is a threat. He demanded removal & announced naval blockade of Cuba to prevent the soviets from building missiles. -
Communist takes over China
Chinese troops expanded into Tibet, India and Southern. China had been in turmoil engaged in civil war with Japan. When Communist took power china moved rapidly to strengthen their rule over China's millions of people.Aimed to restore china as a powerful nation. -
Cultural Revoulution
Mao thought that China's economic policies were weakening the communists goal of social equality. He wanted to revive the revolution. He urged young people that in order to learn rev. you have to make rev. Student formed a militia called "The Red Guards".By 1968 he knew it had gone to far so he wanted the Cultural Rev. to stop -
Apollo program
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Revolt in Czechoslovakia
New leader Leonid Brezhnev adopted repressive domestic policies. He clamped down on those who dared to protest his policies. Policy was put to the test in 1968. Czech's communists loosened controls on censorship to offer his country socialism w/ " a human face". On August 20 armed forces from the Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czech.
