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United Nations
International organization to settle world problems and avoid armed conflicts. -
Truman Doctrine
USA would provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism. -
Marshall Plan
US economic recovery for war-torn Europe and gave $13 billion dollars in loans. -
Division of Germany
Allied powers divided Germany into 4 zones. East Germany controlled by Soviet union and West Germany controlled by the allied powers. -
NATO
Countries would provide mutual help if attacked by another country. -
COMECON
Soviet plan to aid in rebuilding countries apart of COMECON. -
Arms race
Compete in building atomic bombs. -
Hydrogen bomb
More destructive than the atomic bomb -
Krushchev
Soviet leader after the death of Stalin. -
Eisenhower
American politician and army general who served as the 34th president of the United States. -
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance of nations blocked by from communism. -
Hungarian revolution
Anti-Soviet demonstrations in Hungary. -
Sputnik
1st satellite to orbit the earth. -
Space race
Both US and USSR battle to be the first into space -
Fidel Castro
Set up a Soviet supported government in Cuba. -
Cuban revolution
Fulgencio Bastista was the Cuban dictator and was overthrown. -
U2
American spy plane shot down over USSR soil. -
Bay of pigs
Cuban exiles ,trained by US forces, invaded Cuba to lead a revolt against Castro. -
Berlin Wall Built
Built to keep East Germans out of West Germany. -
Yuri Gagarian
1st man to orbit the Earth. -
Korean War
UN forces sent in to stop communist aggression and expansion -
Cuban Missile crisis
Nuclear weapons were placed in Cuba by the USSR. -
JFK
Was president of the US until he was assassinated a couple years in, Made the decision to proceed with Bay of Pigs. -
Leonid Brezhnev
Replaced Khrushchev as Soviet leader. -
Vietnamization
An agreement that Nixon would slowly withdraw his forces from Vietnam. -
Detente
The relations between the US and Soviet Union improved. -
Domino Theory
If south Vietnam were to fall to communism then other nations would then also fall to communism. -
Glasnost
Freedom of expression for Soviet citizens, eased harsh treatment of opponents of the Soviet system. -
Perestroika
Gradual changing in Soviet economy allowing private enterprise dismantling of national bureaucracy -
Berlin Wall Torn Down
The way was torn down so both East and West was open to one another. -
Cold war ends
Gorbachev and President George Bush met declaring end to cold war. -
Berlin Airlift
US and British planes flew supplies into West Berlin.
