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Buffer States of the USSR
Poland and other states between Germany and the Soviet Union are buffer states, with reference both to when they were non-communist states before World War II #Domino Theory -
Atomic Bomb
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (covered it) -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
U.S aid to Turkey
Publicly suggested by Marshall in June 1947, and put into action about a year later, the Plan was essentially an extension of the Greecre -
U.S aid to Greece
The extension of military and economic aid to Greece in 1947 plunged the United States into deep involvement in Greek affairs before American public opinion had any understanding of the difficulties. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union -
Berlin airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post -
NATO established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
USSR get atomic bomb
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
Communist win China
From 1911 to 1945, China experienced a revolution, a struggle against warlords, a civil war between the. Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-Shek and the. Communists led by Mao Zedong, and invasion by the. Japanese. After the defeat of the Japanese in World. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea -
Coup in Iran
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état, was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour -
Coup in Guatemala
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite -
Suez Canal Crisis
The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab–Israeli War also named the Tripartite Aggression and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War, was an invasion of Egypt. -
Hungary(Rebellion)
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Cuba (Missile crisis)
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
China explode atomic bomb
The People's Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability -
Beginning of Troops in Viernam
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War -
End of troops in Vietnam
The Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War -
Coup in Chile
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. -
Communist Angola
Self-declared socialist state established in 1975 -
Sandinista rise up in Nicaragua
In the 1970s the FSLN began a campaign of kidnappings which led to national recognition of the group in the Nicaraguan media and solidification of the group as a force in opposition to the Somoza Regime. -
Soviets invaded Afghanistan
Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
War in El Salvador
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition or "umbrella organization" of several left-wing groups. -
Evil Empire Speech
U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities -
Star Wars (S.D.I.)
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Iran Contra Affair
A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
Fall of USSR
Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
