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iron curtain speech
Winston Churchill visited America to give a speech to address the united states to the issue Europe was having with Russia converting eastern European countries to communism. -
Truman Doctrine
United states president Harry S. Truman helped countries fighting against communist government by giving them aid for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey. -
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 in 1947, and further developed in 1948, when he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a result of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states in 1948. The result of the war made Korea into one country again. -
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cuban missile crisis
It was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
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cultural revolution
It was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976. The movement was launched in May 1966, by Mao Zedong, after Mao Zedong alleged that bourgeois elements had infiltrated the government and society at large, aiming to restore capitalism. -
revolt in czechslovakia
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968. The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.
