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Cold War
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Beginning of the cold war
Started after world war 2, struggle between communist and noncommunist nations and U.S. and Soviet union fought for power -
truman doctrine
began providing military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, Communist guerrillas were fighting and truman's policy worked -
Marshall plan
huge success, George Marshall came up with a plan to help eutopean nations and U.S. loaned 16 western european countries more than $12 billion -
Alger Hiss
strongly denied passing any secret papers to the soviet union, sued chambers for making false accusations, convicted of perjury, or lying and could no longer be charged with spying -
NATO
as cold war tensions rose, U.S. and other western nations established the north atlantic treaty organization and formal military alliance to guard againsta soviet attack -
korean war
commusinsts cross the 38th parallel and take south korea, U.S. troops take over south korea and north korea as far as china and peace talks takesplace, but short battles are still being fought -
Rosenberg trial
Americans were arrested on charges of passing the secret of the atomic bomb to the soviets, Julias and Ethel Rosenbery were found guilty of spying and Rosenbergs were executed in 1953 -
Vietnam War
sent weapons and advisers to train vietnam's troops, sent more weapons and advisers, ordered bombing raids and sent large number of U.S. troops to fight -
Warsaw Pact
was a treaty, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union signed the treaty in Warsaw in May 1955 and albania withdrew from warsaw pact in1968 -
Bay of pigs
U.S. tries to overthrow cuba's dictator castro, cuba castro wins and his communist government by invading Bay of Pigs -
U-2 spy plane
Russians shot down an american u-2 airplane, put the pilot in a russia jail and pilot was taking pictures of places where russians keep missles -
Collapse of Soviet Union
communist rule was growing, eastern europe grew weaker and democracy sprang up