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Atomic Bomb
The US used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This is important because this was the first time the US had ever used an atomic bomb before. -
Stalin Declares Cold War
Joesf Satlin is declaring to the west that he is aganist them. This is important because this marks the war between the USA and USSR. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain symbolizes the fighting and boundary dividing the europe into between the communist and the capitalists. It showed effort that the soviet union had to block itself and inderpence. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman wanted to provide poilitical, military and economic assistant to people who wanted to be free from communism. Truman Doctrine is a policy that the US would help Greeece and Turkey. -
Marshall's Plan
This was a plan to help europe in a time of need. By doing that the US helped with suppling economic assistance with the amount 18 billion dollars. -
Soviets' First Atomic Bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightning." In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. -
Joesph McCarthy
Joesph McCarthy accused several innocent people of being a communist themselves. This was also know as the Red Scare because of McCarthy accusing people it also caused a lot of people to be scare. -
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall is a wall that was made to divide west and east berlin. The reason why they made this wall was to keep western berlin from entering to the east. -
President Kennedy Assassination
John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. This was important event during the Cold War because he was the president of the united stated and he was shot. -
U.S. troops land in the Dominican Republic
Because a lot of people were becoming or being take over by communist, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends more than 22,000 U.S. troops to restore order on the island nation. What Johnson did made people to do oud protests in Latin America and made people felt skepticism among many in the United States -
United States intervention in Chile
Presiden Richard Nixon did not like the fact that President Salvador Allende was elected in Chile because he didnt want antoher cuba to be in south america. So what he did was he sent CIA into their country to take him down. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
This was a strategic defense that resident Reagan proposes to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. -
Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
This was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. -
Fall of Communism
The Berlin Wall came down. Earlier that day, the communist authorities of the German Democratic Republic had announced the removal of travel restrictions to democratic West Berlin. Thousands of East Germans ran into the West, and in the middle of the night, celebrants on both sides of the wall began to tear it down. -
End of Soviet Union Cold War
The Soviet Union became republics. Than the next thing you know the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
