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Mao Zedong
Mao led the communist forces in China and controlled their communist government -
McCarthyism
The United States had feared that there would be a spread of communism because communist were spies and traitors and also because of their beliefs -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill gae a speech for his re-election in Missouri to advise the soviets. Harry S. Truman and the United States were also involved -
Truman Doctrine
Henry S. Truman asked the United States to assist Greece and Turkey to forestall the communiste domination because he believed both nations were threatend by communism. -
Containment policy
The United Stetes's military strategy to stop the expansion of the enemies because communism was abroad -
Marshall PLan
The United States sent 13 billion americans to help rebuild the Western european economy because it had gotten destroyed after World War II -
Korean War
The Korean war between the North and South of korea was the first military action of the cold war located across the 38th parallel to win over the south's land. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was launched from Tyratan's launch base in the Kazakh Republic to correspond with the International Geophysical year and to study the eart and the solar system. -
U2 Spylane Incident
There was a diplomatic crisis when th Union of Soviet Socialist Repulic (USSR) shot down the aerican U-2 plane and captured Francis Gary Powers in the soviet air space on May 1960. This crisis erupted because the CIA had flying sies over the USSR for years. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Nationalist Fidel Castro, drove his army into Havan and overthrew the nation's American-backed president General Fulgancio Batista to gain power.
