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Truman Doctrine
In a dramatic address before a congressional joint session, President Harry S. Truman calls for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey before forestall the two nations 'communist dominance. Historians have frequently quoted Truman's address as the official declaration of the Cold War, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine. The British government told the United States in February 1947 that it would no longer be able to offer the economic and military aid it had given to Greece and Turkey -
Red Scare
Promoting a common panic from a culture or state of a possible emergence in communism or anarchism. The name refers to the red flags used by the communists. The term is most widely used to refer to two points in the history of the United States of which the name refers. The First Red Scare, shortly after the First World War -
Containment policy
Containment, defensive foreign strategy followed by the US starting in the late 1940s to counter the Soviet Union's expansionist agenda. The concept was proposed by the principal strategy framer, the U.S. ambassador George F. Kennan, who wrote in an unnamed report in the July 1947 issue of International Relations that the U.S. would seek a "long-lasting, cautious yet persistent and diligent restraint of Russian aggressive impulses" -
Marshall plan
In 1948 American plan passed Western Europe for humanitarian assistance. The United States allocated more than $12 billion in economic rehabilitation projects to Western European economies after the end of the Second World War. Replacing an earlier proposal for a Morgenthau Programme, it worked for four years starting on April 3, 1948[2]. -
Berlin airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. The Soviet action was in response to the refusal of American and British officials to allow Russia more say in the economic future of Germany. -
Arms Race
Race to War. The United States and the Soviet Union participated in a nuclear-arms war during the Cold War. The Soviet Union spent about 27 per cent of its overall gross domestic product on the military at the end of the Cold War. It crippled their economies and helped put the Cold War to a end. -
Space Race
Competition between two competitors of the Cold War, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to reach the spaceflight capabilities first. It had its roots in the post-World War II ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two countries. The technical superiority needed to reach accelerated spaceflight achievements was seen as important for national security and blended with the rhetoric and politics of the time. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a fence dividing Germany from 1961 to 1989. Established by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) beginning on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from neighboring East Germany and East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989 by government officials.
