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Cold War Events

  • communism

    communism

    political and economic system in which workers owned the means and instruments of industrial production and governed themselves, appeared to most Americans a conscious repudiation of their own free-enterprise, capitalist economic system and a direct challenge to American power.
  • HUAC

    HUAC

    Accused often
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan

    The rebuilding of Europe.
  • containment

    containment

    the containment of communist people into a contained area where they cant get out.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    providing economic and military aid to Turkey and Greece. Inspired by fears that the war-torn nations were vulnerable to communist takeover, the policy encompassed support for anticommunist efforts around the world.
  • korean war

    korean war

    Soviet and the US drove China out of Japan, they divide Korea in to two zones. The division was supposed to be temporary but the cold war tensions grew in 1948 South Korea setup separate governments.
  • berlin airlift

    berlin airlift

    June 24th 1948 the soviets blocked roads canals and rail ways linking Berlin to Western Germany
  • MacCarthyism

    MacCarthyism

    accusations of dislyalty ,subversion and ,ilitary aid to all free countries resulting communism.
  • balance of powers

    balance of powers

  • Soviet Union

    Soviet Union

    Union Soviet shocked the world for the second time, in November it launched Sputnik ll, and had a dog aboard January 1958 US sent its first Satellite
  • space race

    space race