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A "Red Scare" is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. The name refers to the red flags that the communists used. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which are referred to by this name
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Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States
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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy
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An arms race occurs when two or more nations participate in interactive or competitive increases in "persons under arms" as well as "war material".
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At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States liberated Korea from imperial Japanese colonial control on 15 August 1945.
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United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union occupy zones of Berlin
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative
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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War.
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the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
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Détente, period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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visit to the People's Republic of China was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and mainland China after years of diplomatic isolation.
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is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement signed
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reforms were gradualist and maintained many of the macroeconomic aspects of the command economy
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The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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The Revolutions of 1989 formed part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union, or collapse of the Soviet Union, was the process of internal disintegration within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also referred to as the Soviet Union.
