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A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. The leaders planned the final stages of WW2 and agreed on the subsequent territorial division of Europe.
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The principal that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
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A program of financial aid and other initiatives, sponsored by the US, designed to boost the economies of western European countries after WWII
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The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access tot he sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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The war between North and South Korea because North Communism was trying to expand to the South.
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A war between Communist North Vietnam and US-backed South Vietnam.
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The U-2 incident happened during the Cold War, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was the US President and Nikita Khrushchev was Premier of the Soviet Union.
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A heavily guarded wall built on the boundary between East and West.
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This was the closest approach to nuclear was at any time between the US and the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union sent hundred of troops in to Afghanistan. They invaded Afghanistan to prop up the communist government.
