Cold war

Cold War 1945-1990

By grans21
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    cold war

  • Truman Plan

    Truman Plan

    The Truman Plan was that Republicanis in congress involed sending $400 million in american money.
  • *United States first used atomic bomb in war

    1945
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    a wall divided esatern and western europe.
  • marshall plan

    marshall plan

    American program to help Europe, which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II.
  • Aparthied

    Aparthied

    A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    Was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Germany was divided amongst the victors, the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    a war between south Korea and north Korea. South Korea was help by United Nations.
  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory

    It was promoted by the United States government
  • Great Leap Forward

    Great Leap Forward

    was an economic and social campaign of China.
  • OPEC

    OPEC

    The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam. 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    was an unsuccessful miltitary invasion of Cuba.
  • cantonment

    cantonment

    Is a military or police quarters
  • *cuban missile crisis

    *cuban missile crisis

    known as the october crisis in Cuba.
  • *President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas

    1963
  • *U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

    1965
  • *North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo

    *North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo

    is engaged in a routine surveillance of the North Korean coast when it is intercepted by North Korean patrol boats.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    Is a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968
  • *Apollo 11 lands on the moon

    1969
  • *President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

    1970
  • Watergate

    Watergate

    was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s.
  • *SALT I signed

    1972
  • 1972 Olympics

    1972 Olympics

    officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad and the second Olymipics help in germany.
  • Camp David Accords

    Camp David Accords

    It was signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978.
  • *SALT II signed

    1979
  • Ayatolloh Khomeini

    Ayatolloh Khomeini

    leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  • Iran Hostage Situation

    Iran Hostage Situation

    was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States.
  • *soviet war in afghanistan

    *soviet war in afghanistan

    lasted nine years.biollions of dollars. invloved russians and afghnistan.
  • *U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada

    1983
  • Perestroika and Glasnost

    Perestroika and Glasnost

    renovation of the Soviet body politic and society that he pursued as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1985 until 1991.
  • Tiananmen Square Massacre

    Tiananmen Square Massacre

    troops with assault rifles and tanks killed thousands of an unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance on Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing.
  • *Cold War Ends

    1991
  • Nafta

    Nafta

    an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States