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The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II.
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he Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
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viets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy.
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In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed.
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The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955
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he Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program
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The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
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he Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute as US was not in war with Cuba then.
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he Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.
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e fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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e cold war was a fight between the United States and the USSR over the world's resources
