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Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill gave a speech that referred to the fact that Eastern Europe was more or less controlled by the soviet union in 1946. They want the division into mostly democratic Western Europe and communists Eastern Europe. How it happened was it was Winston Churchill's idea to make the iron curtain so he did it with a high wall to separate the communists and the democratic's -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. and Truman were involved. Truman established that the united states would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external and internal authoritarian forces. happened in Greece, turkey, and Mediterranean. -
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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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Korean War
The people's republic of china. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
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Cultural revolution
Mao Zedong was involved in the Cultural Revolution. Formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China. The Cultural Revolution occurred in 1966 - 1976. The reason why was to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. 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 20 decades earlier and the formation of the People’s Republic of China. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
Alexander Dubček was involved with the Revolt in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubček was elected first secretary of the communists party of Czechoslovakia. when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to suppress the reforms.