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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long conflict that between the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally which was the United States. The conflict was happening because of the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to south Vietnam and Asia since it has already spread to North Vietnam.This happened in eastern Europe after 1945. -
Iron curtain Speech
Winston Churchill was concerned about the soviets taking over Eastern Europe and creating a totalitarian governments and he wanted the United States to be involved. The iron curtain was a division between Western European capitalist countries and Eastern Europe Communist countries. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine was an american foreign policy whose purpose was to make soviet expansion during the cold war. Declaring immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece and they were threatened by communist, and Turkey, under pressure from Soviet expansion, In 1947, President Harry Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread.This all took place in Greece. -
Marshall Plan
The marshal plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billionin economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war regions, remove trade and prevent the spread of Communism.The Marshall Plan required a barriers, many regulations, and encouraged an increase in productivity. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin airlift was a military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin had cut off its supply routes. The Soviet Union, UK,US, and British were involved. -
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 and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under the Western control. This happen in Berlin in June 1948. The reason this happened was because Stalin claimed the new currency was an attempt to wreck the east German Economy. -
Communist take over China
Mao Zedong and the communist took over China and when they did everything took a down fall, railways, roads, farms and factories were in a shocking state of disrepair. This took place on October 1949 in China. Mao, the communist and the nationalist were involved. -
NATO
NATO is an alliance of 28 countries bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. It includes the United States, most European Union members, Canada, and Turkey. NATO is short for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Korean war
The Korean war was between the North and South Korea. The war began in June, 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea along with clashes in the border. -
Revolt in Hungary
The Hungarian Revolution was one of the darkest events of the Cold War. It began on October 23, 1956, when hundreds of thousands of Hungarians led a revolt against the Soviet controlled government.After the rebels had taken control of the government, they appointed Imre Nagy as prime minister. -
Sputnik
DescriptionSputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere -
Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1962. The campaign was led by Chairman Mao Zedong and aimed to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis 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.This began when the USSR began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962.This happened during the cold war and almost lead to a nuclear conflict. -
Cultural Revolution
It was a sociopolitical movement in the people's republic of China. Mao Zedong launched it in 1966, claiming that elitists were undermining the government and Chinese society. This happened so Zedong can reassert his authority over the Chinese government. This movement last 10 years from 1966 to 1976. -
Apollo program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the NASA, which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
On the night of August 20 1968, 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the brief period of freedom in the communist country. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent events, but they were no match for the Soviets.
