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Alger HIss
Was a former U.S. government official who was convicted of perjury in 1950 for denying his association with an agent of the USSR. -
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1st man on the Moon
His flight lasted nearly 5 hours
The U.S. and Soviets were now also in a race to develope the technology to control outerspace. -
"Iron Curtain" speech
The Iron Curtain speech, known as the Sinews of Peace address, was delivered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on March 5th, 1946 at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. The audience numbered around 40,000. In this speech, Churchill talked about how wrong it was that the Russians were occupying European countries. He spoke of all the terrible things that were going on within these countries, and of the threats and dangers of Communism. -
Marshall Plan
In early 1947,as the cold war began to take shape, U.S. policy maker concluded that Western Europe would require substantial economic aid in order to attain political stability. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty organization came into being on August 24,1949.
Western European nations felt too weak to defend themselves individually. -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. American officials worked anxiously to fashion some sort of armistice with the North Koreans. -
Truman Doctrine
A major turningpoint in American foreign policy, the Truman Doctrine marked the beginning of the U.S. effort to contain Communist expansion. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war began in 1954 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s), after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the project name for three artificial satellites.
Sputnik means "traveling companion in Russia".
Their scientific purpose was to discover if living organisms could survive space conditions. -
U-2 spy plane
American politicians and the military were satisfied. At last a spyplane excelling all modern analogies had been created. It had already flown over the territories of different countries for several years with great success. -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. tries to overthrow Cuba's dictator, castro and his communist government by invading Bay of Pigs, Cuba.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK publicly announced that the USSR had begun to deploy medium and intermediate range nuclear missiles.
Most dangerous moment of the Cold War. -
Cold war
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers.
For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community as well as their delayed entry into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity.