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Indochinese Communist Party
organises a guerrilla force, Viet Minh, in response to invasion by Japan during World War II. 1945 -
Yalta Conference
United States, Soviet Union and Great Britian. Febuary 1945 -
Iron Curtian
boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 -
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Harry Truman
WW11 ends with his decision to drop the a-bomb, United Nations is created. Created the first H-bomb -
Truman Doctrine
Gave $400 million economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, to fend off communism and stay free ECONOMIC -
Marshall Plan
$13 billion in aid given to rebuild western Europe, 16 countries received aid. ECONOMIC -
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Cold War
U.S- Soviet Union -
Berlin Airlift
Lasted 11 months, Stalin cut off supplies into W. Berlin, U.S airlift food and supplies into the city, Stalin reopended supply lines. ECONOMIC -
NATO
Collecgive security, had to be an democracy, North Atlantic Treat Organixation -
Soviet Test Atomic Bomb
USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” -
H-Bomb
hydrogen bomb created by the us -
SEATO
South East Asian treaty organization, U.S. and 7 other nations POLITICAL AND MILITARY -
Vietnam war
known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Offered economic and military support if communism threatedned the middle east. ECONOMIC -
Space Race
Cold war rivals trying to see who could get to space first -
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John F. Kennedy
Soviets begin constructing Berlin Wall, JFK is shot and killed in dallas texas -
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Berlin Wall
guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
Cuban Missel Crisis
October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Star Wars
announces his plans to develop an anti-missile capability to counter the threat of Soviet ballistic missiles and to make these nuclear weapons -
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George Bush
Soviet Union collapses -
Middle East
Britian and france controlled the middle east after ww1