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WW2 ENDED
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MARSHALL PLAN
Contain Communist Expansion -
BERLIN BLOCKADE & AIRLIFT
Increased Tension -
NATO
International Alliances between 29 members states of North America and Europe. Defend each other from Soviet Unions -
KOREAN WAR
North invaded the South in support of the USSR -
WARSAW PACT
response to NATO through collective security -
HUNGARIAN UPRISING
To show that Warsaw Pact is not unified, but was crashed by the Warsaw Pact Forces -
PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE
Khrushchev, a policy of peace between nations, that they can have competition but with no war -
BERLIN WALL
A barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin. -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Due to brinkmanship - achieving something by going through dangerous events - it almost lead to nuclear war between countries that are powerful -
PRAGUE SPRINGS - BREZHNEV DOCTRINE
period of political liberalization and mass protest in Czechoslovakia as a Communist State. Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet Foreign Policy to intervene in countries where Socialist rule was under threat. -
VIETNAM WAR - DOMINO THEORY
North of Vietnam was occupied by the Soviets, while South of Vietnam was occupied by the US. With President Eisenhower he strengthened the policies against the Soviets. Domino Theory was a theory that if one country in a region would go under the influence of communist, the rest will follow. -
HELSINKI ACCORDS
An effort to reduce the tension between the Soviets and Western blocs. -
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
A multilateral treaty that wanted to limit the spreading of nuclear weapons. -
SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN
The Soviets intervened in the support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist guerrillas during the Afghan War. -
SOLIDARITY
First Trade Union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by the communist party, lead by Lech Walesa. -
BERLIN WALL TORN DOWN
Germany was reunified after the torn down of the Berlin Wall -
WARSAW PACT IS DISSOLVED
A sign that the Soviet is losing control over its former allies, and Cold War is coming to an end. -
SOVIET UNION CEASES TO EXIST
The oil and gas dropped dramatically, the USSR began to lose its Eastern Europe alliances. Gorbachev's reforms were slow to bear fruit which also added to collapse the Soviets. -
START
reduce the number of nuclear weapons as a form of deterrence -discouraging an action by stating fears of consequences.-
