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iron curtain speech
Winston churchill was concerned about the soviets taking over eastern europe and creating totalitarian governments and he wanted the united states to be involved. The iron curtain was a divison between western eruopean capitalist countries and eastern european communist countries -
Truman Doctrine
this is a speech asking congress for foreign aid for turkey and greece . they support the countries that rejected communism was called the truman doctrine. this caused great controversy. they were gonna use 400 million in aid to turkey and greece to aid. -
Marshall Plan
the Marshall plan was a assistance program. the program was trying to rebuild western European. the communist snatched power in Czechoslovakia. the whole things became successful. -
the berlin aircraft
the united states was crashing the soviet over for germany. the soviet union cut off high way water and rail traffic into berlins western zones. Soon british began to fly food across the country. -
berlin blockade
it was one of the first major international crisis of the cold war. it was during the multinational occupation of post world war ll the soviet union blocked railway , road, and canal access to the sectors of berlins under weastern control. -
NATO
10 western nations jouned the united states and canada to form a defensive military alliance. Nato is short for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. most NATO members would be met with armed ferce by all member nations. -
korean war
the united states and soviet union was withdrawn most of the troops in korea. the united states supplied north korea with tanks airplanes and money in an attempt take over the peninsula. Later on the north korea attacked the south korea. north korea troops had penetrated deep into the south. -
vietnam war
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam. -
revolt in hungary
the hungary uprising was a nationwide revolution agaisnt the hungarian peoples republic and the soviet imposed policies. the revolt spread quickly across hungary and the goverment collasped. -
sputnik
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit in october orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere. -
the great leap forward
the great leap forward was apart of the 5 year plan. this plan was for the farms it has 26000 communes had been created. they supported over 25000 people. -
the communists transform china
china fought in the civil war fighting japan. the communist got power and tried to take over the population in china. the communist was a disciplined group. 1957 chinas coal, steel, cement, electricity and output increased very. -
apollo program
the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
the missile failed bay of pigs invason told the leader nikita that the united states would not resist the soviet. Khrushchev secretly began to build 42 missiles in cuba. Soon people started to find out the secret. -
The cultural Revolution
the cultural revolution was the red guards they establish a society of peasants and workers. A lot od peasants worked with their hands. thousands were executed or imprisoned. -
revolt in czechoslovikia
the soviet union led warsaw pact troops in an invasion to crack down reforminst trends in prague.