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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan also known as European Recovery was meant to help European after World War II. -
Creation of NATO
Was formed to stop the communist expansion formed by the U.S. and 11 other Western Nations. -
The Korean War
The first military invasion of the Cold War. As the war kept going no one was getting results so the U.S. backed off. -
US creates and tests the hydrogen bomb
The United States successfully detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
Was to be the opposite of NATO it was really to spread Communism. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War broke out the United States forces were with drawled in 1973 to 1975. -
Soviet launch Sputnik
Sputnik was the first man-made object to orbit the Earth after the U.S. soon created NASA. -
Bay of Pigs
Launched an attack on Cuba with Cubans who didn’t want Fidel Castro as the leader. As the invaders were outnumbered they surrendered within 24 hours. -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
The Berlin Wall was put up to keep the fascists from entering the East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Was a 13th day military standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union because the Soviets had nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
US sends a man to the moon
The U.S. sends a man to the moon on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon. -
Olympic Rivalry: 1972 basketball game
The U. S. loses in basketball to the Soviet Union the score was 50 for the U.S. and 51 for the Soviet Union. -
1980 Olympic Hockey game
The beats the Soviet Union in ice hockey winning 4 to 3. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
When the Berlin Wall came down it basically symbolizes the fall of the Soviet Union. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
When the Soviet Union was no more as Mikhail S. Gorbachev became leader he wanted to change the Soviet by breaking it up.
