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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was to help economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II. The Marshall Plan expended more than $12.5 billion for the eroupen countries. This money would be used to help the eroupen countires recover from the war. -
Creation of NATO
The expansion of Soviet influence in Europe and the threats brought a growing alarm throughout Europe. As a result, in April 1949, 12 nations established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -
The Korean War
The Korean War began in June 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations and the US helped to defend South Korea. After almost avoiding defeat, the U.S led the UN army back threw Korea and chased the North Koreansnorth. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact is the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955. The was made for Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance between the countries -
Vietnam War
Communism had spread to Asia, and spread to Vietnam. North Vietnam was communist. South Vietnam was not. The North Vietnamese Army attacked South Vietnam to take control over it, and make it communist as well. The US did not favor communism the US wanted to stop it from spreading. The US sent the US army to help the South Vietnamese. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by United States to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Cuban exiles went to the bay of pigs insland but were killed or captured. The Bay of Pigs was a embassment to the US. -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
The Berlin Wall was a way between West Berlin and East Germany. It was also the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States feared the Soviets were going to use Cuba to lanuch nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded -
US sends a man to the moon
The Space Race effectively began after the Soviet Launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. The Space Race became an important part of the cultural, technological, and rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The United States ended the Space Race after sending the first men to men. -
Nixon visits China
The US was seeking to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War. Nixon met with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. The two leaders agreed to expand cultural contacts between their two nations. Nixon also established plans for trading between the countires. -
1972 basketball game
The US had a team full of great college players. The Soviet Union had a team of veteran atheletes. The US won the game 2 times but each time the game clock it 0 there would be a reason to put more time on the clock. The Soviets won the game with a last second shot and but more fuel on the cold war -
1980 Olympic Hockey game
The U.S. ice hockey team was onsisting largely of current and former college players, They played ainst older and more experienced teams. They had the best upest ever against the Soviet Union led to one of Olympic hockey's most unlikely victories which started a turn in the cold war -
US Invades Grenada
In 1983 the United States invaded the island of Grenada and Overthrew the communist government in favor of goverment like the US. -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
This was the end of the soviet Union in Germany. Communist left Germany and berlin was one again. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The causes were political and economic and they were the result of the culture of war. The Soviet Union had lost lots of money from making wepons and war effots. The people in the soviet Union wanted a change.
