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Iron Curtain
Boundary that separated the War-Saw Pact countries and the NATO countries. This was the date it was created. -
Marshall Plan
American program to aid Europe. -
Vietnam War
South Vietnam was allied to the USA and North Vietnam was allied to USSR. America feared that if north Vietnam won other Asian countries would fall to communism. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union. It was an artificial Earth Satellite. The Sputnik Crisis was the United States reaction to Sputnik 1. -
Bay of Pigs
A CIA sponsored American attack on the Cuban government -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States armed forces was at the highest state of readiness and the Soviet Union was prepared to launch battlefield nuclear weapons on the United States. It was also the closest the world has ever gotten to nuclear war -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The wall that separated east and West Berlin fell almost as soon a it rose. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The declaration that dissolved the Soviet Union a acknowledged the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union