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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was when Hary S. Truman asked Congress for $400 million to aid Greece and Turkey. This can be connected with The Marshall Plan because it gave more than $12 billion to aid Western European countries in hope that they could end the spread of communism. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Soviets wanted to keep the communist East Berliners from escaping so they shut down the railways and roads. People were still escaping though so they built the Berlin Wall to keep them in for good. -
NATO
NATO also known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Senator Joseph McCarthy
In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of 205 State Department employees who were Communist Party members. Some of these members included Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were Soviet spies who were sentenced to death for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
In June 1950 North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea. General Douglas McArthur was chosen to help fight in Korea. At first the UN forces were outnumbered and had poor supplies. McArthur launched a counterattack by sea. He landed UN forces behind Korean lines in Inchon and drove them back across the 38th parallel. In July 1953 both sides of the war signed an armistice to end the fighting and a demilitarized zone was set up on each side of the 38th parallel. -
Vietnam War Begins
Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese nationalist and a Communist who led Communist North Vietnam. Ngo Dinh Diem was the leader of South Vietnam. As time went on, many South Vietnamese lost trust in Diem so they went to join the Vietcong. In August 1964 President Lyndon Johnson asked congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution wich allowed him to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the North Vietnamese. The draft was set up to get more troops to fight for the South Vietnamese -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis 2
The invasion was badly planned so soon all the invaders were captured by Castro's forces. After the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Soviet Union kept giving Cuba weapons. In October 1962 Kennedy learned that the Soviets were building missiles bases in Cuba. Kennedy announced that the ships were heading towards America. At the last minute they turned back. Kennedy's strong stand led to a compromise. Krushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba and in return America would not invade Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis 3
Kennedy then started a program called NASA. This program was created to compete with the Soviet Union to send more technology farther into space. The technology that was used in the rockets was used to build nuclear missiles. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
By the 1960's the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowerss. This rivalry led to clashes in many places including Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution that set up a Communist state in Cuba. When the Soviet Union started supplying Cuba with weapons the US started to worry. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy created a plan for Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro. A force of about 1,200 Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba's south coast. -
The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was when the Vietcong launched suprise attacks on cities throughout South Vietnam. Guerillas stormed the American embassy in Saigon wich was the capital of South Vietnam. It became known as the Tet Offensive because it took place during the Vietnamise New Year holiday, Tet. -
SALT Agreement
The SALT Agreement was one of the first examples of detente. The Soviet Union and The United States wanted to limit the amount of nuclear weapons that they had. -
Glasnost
Glastnos was a policy that called for openess in government activities in the Soviet Union. This word was commonly used by Mikhail Gorbachev because he believed that the policy could help reduce the corruption at the top of the Communist Party. -
Communism Collapses
President Ronald Reagan believed that The USSR was the "focus of all evin in the world." Because of this he wanted a new weapon system that could destroy Soviet missiles from space. This system was nicknamed Star Wars because of the movies that came out during that time. During Reagan's first term in office, the two superpowers still did not trust each other. Eventually the USSR collapsed. Instead of just a one-party state, the USSR ended up being made up of 15 different republics.
