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The Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill delivers the speech in the United States . He is concerned about Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain is the division between Capitalists Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe . He wanted America to take bigger role in Soviet aggression. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a set of beliefs created by president Harry Truman. It was created on March 12, 1947. It calls for financial and military aid from the United States to Greece and Turkey. It was an attempt to protect countries from Soviet control. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was a United States program that provided aid to western Europe after World War II. It was created by the U.S. secretary George Marshall and was brought into effect in 1948. It was a plan to reconstruct the cities and Industries that were severely damaged during war -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an effort to restrict the traveling of France, Great Britain, and United States into the Soviet sectors of Berlin. This happened in 1948 by the Soviet Union. Western powers made an airlift that would take supplies to West Berlin. -
Berlin airlift
The Berlin airlift was a way that let the U.S. and its allies to send supplies to Berlin. It was created because of the Berlin blockade that blocked the western powers from getting into Berlin. It stared in 1948 and lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of supplies into West Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. It was created in 1949 to defend member nations from threats by communist countries. -
Communists take over China
The communist took over China in 1949. Chinas communist party -
Korean War
After WW2 Korea was free from the Japanese. North Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union and South Korea was occupied by the USA. The country was divided in half. Capitalists were the south and communist were north. The two countries were enemies and wouldn’t accept the border between to be permanent. The North Korea’s attacked south, North Korea defeated the south and took over. The United Nations then helped South Korea and Pushed the north back to the border where peace agreements were made. -
Vietnam war
The Vietnam war was a long conflict between communist North and South Vietnam with some help from the United States. It took place from November 1, 1955-April 30, 1975. It started as a way to contain the spread of communism because America thought communism was going to expand over south east Asia. -
Revolt in Hungary
The revolt in Hungary was a revolution against the Hungarian peoples republic and its Soviet imposed policies. It spread quickly and the government collapsed. In October, 1956 it irrupted into fighting where at first the rebels were successful. Fighting stopped on the 28th when the rebels had thought Soviet troops backed down. But on November 1st The Soviets invaded again. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be launched into space. It was launched by the Soviet union at 10:29 PM from Tyuratem Launch base in Kazakh Republic on October 4, 1957. It traveled around earth every hour and 36 minutes. 1958 it deteriorated as expected. -
Great Leap Forward
The great leap forward campaign was a social and economic campaign by the Communist Party of China. Created in 1958 to -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict between The U.S.A and The Soviet Union. The Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles on Cuban land because Khrushchev wanted to increase his nations nuclear strike capability. The U.S. found out about it by a U-2 spy plane that took a picture of one of the missiles being assembled in Cuba. President Kennedy made this an urgent matter because the missiles were placed only 90 miles away from the United States. It lasted 13 days in October of 1962. -
Cultural Revolution
Mao believed the government and the CCP were becoming to distant from the people which lead to a cultural revolution for a decade long political campaign which caused for a purge. A youth organization called the Red Guards start preaching the teaching of Mao. The Red Guards go throughout the country destroying the old culture and spreading the teaching of the new culture -
Apollo Program
The Apollo program was a NASA program that sprung American astronauts to take 11 space flights and also land on the moon. The first space flight happened in 1968. The first moon landing was in 1966 where astronauts studied the lunar surface and collected moon rocks to bring back to earth. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
The Revolt in Czechoslovakia happened because 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops invaded on August 20, 1968. The Soviets, East Germans, and etc. invaded Czechoslovakia to take down the Prague Spring which was a liberalization in the communist country. The Czech people protested this invasion by taking to the streets and removing street signs to confuse the people invading.