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President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. Showed US stand against communism.
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Introduced by Secretary of State George G. Marshall in 1947. Proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WW2 and help to prevent spread of Communism.
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Berlin was blocked off by the Soviet Union in order to strangle the Allied forces. In order to combat this, the United State begin to airlift supplies to Berlin.
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The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea, while the communist helped North Korea.
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Public accusations of disloyalty made with little or no regard to actual evidence. Named after senator Joseph McCarthy these accusations and the scandal and harm caused came to symbolize the most virulent form of anticommunism.
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USA threatens to attack Cuba if USSR does not pull nukes out, very close to global destruction
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A Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1969, to April 30, 1975 when Saigon fell. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other capitalist nations.
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On December of 1991 the USSR fall. It become a freedom for democratism and capitalism. It was separated into 15 different countries.
