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Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War
  • National Security Act

    National Security Act

    Major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    American initiative to aid Western Europe. economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War 2
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War 2
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    End of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
  • NATO

    NATO

    Alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    North Korea invaded South Korea
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions.
  • U-2 Incident

    U-2 Incident

    U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic
  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

    Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

    Which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere.
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Eisenhower Doctrine

    military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.