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The U.S, soviet union, France, and Britain occupy Berlin.
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The Soviet Union blocked the railway to west Berlin which means that no supply of any kind could get into the American part of Berlin.
It is important since America could not bring supplies like food into their territory. It served the Soviets well in a way that they wanted the world to see that their part of Berlin is better -
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided $15 billion to help finance Europe.
Implementation of the Marshall Plan has been cited as the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and its European allies and the Soviet Union, which had taken control of much Europe and established its satellite republics as communist nations. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
During the Cold War, NATO focused on collective defence and the protection of its members from potential threats emanating from the Soviet Union. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of non-state actors affecting international security, many new security threats emerged. -
The Korean war was a war between North and South Korea. North Korea invaded the South territory and for 3 years the 2 countries fought until the 38th parallel line agreement was signed, which is the boarder to this day.
it impacted the world war in a way that the South part was capitalist and the North side was communist, and the fight between them was in a way the fight between the US and the USSR as they each supported one side of the boarder and supplied it. -
the battle of dien bien phu was battle between Ho Chi Minh's communist forces and the French men who colonized northwest vietnam long before.
This was important to the cold war but to the vietminh in particular because it was the first battle they won against the French men. around the time of this battle Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam a free country which was bad for America because the people of Vietnam now trusted a communist leader who can imply the domino effect in Asia -
The US invaded Cuba on its south coast in order to destroy any Soviet weapon that could be launched into the US territory.
This invasion was such a big turning point in the cold war that it almost caused nuclear war to start and possibly end the world as people knew it -
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communist Viatnamese forces attacked US forces in the gulf of Tonkin by Torpedo which caused president Johnson to attack them back.
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During a Viatnamese holiday, the communist forces of vietnam attacked a couple of targets in the south, American supporters and such.
it played a major role in the war because it weakened the US among the public in Vietnam and drew more supporters to the communist side. -
A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. More than 500 people were slaughtered in the My Lai massacre, including young girls and women who were raped and mutilated before being killed.
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