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Marshall plan
the Marshall plan was a aid package to help Europe rebuild after ww11 -
Japan
U.S occupation of japan under MacArthur administration.democracy development -
the united states and the U.S.S.R
The united states and the U.S.S.R went head to head on who can be a better country. from rocket ships to commercials to anything they could think of. -
Iron curtain
After ww2 winston churchill was voted out of office resulting in him coming to the united states and gave a important speech in 1946. He described the soviet union as a ¨iron curtain¨ dividing the continents. -
Germany
Democratic government was installed in west berlin -
Domino theory
the us basically thought if communism succeeded south Vietnam the communism would spread and the countries would fall to it -
President truman and the policy of containment
Containment- the prevention of communism spreading -
NATO and Warsaw pact
a military alliance that resulted in the warsaw plan from the soviet union -
Chinese civil war
china was divided into 2 nations -
mao tse-tung
became communist leader of china -
chiang kai-shek
became leader of nationalist china -
38th parallel
north korean troops invaded south korea. policy of containment. war ended in armistice in 1953 -
deterrence
deterrence is the belief that having large amounts of nuclear weapons by both superpowers would prevent nuclear attack -
battle at dien bien phu
the Vietnamese defeated the french and pushed them out of Vietnam -
ho chi minh
became leader of communist north Vietnam -
the united states
applied the containment theory to ending communism in vietnam by sending troops into fight -
berlin wall
berlin wall became a powerful symbol of the division between east and west during the cold war -
Cuban missile crisis
brink of nuclear war. john f kennedy imposed a naval blockade of cuba -
indira gandhi
developed a closer relationship with the soviet union and developed a nuclear program -
the paris peace accords
ended the fighting in vietnam by the united states -
north vietnam defeated south vietnam
vietnam was reunited as a communist country -
Deng xiaoping
reformed communist china's economy to a market economy leading to rapid economic growth, but kept communist control of the government -
Margaret thatcher
close relationship with united states -
mikhail gorbachev
instituted policies of glasnost and perestroika which led to the fall of the soviet union -
berlin wall came down
east and west germany re-unified -
soviet union
economic collapse and break up