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WWII ends
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Cold War
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Iron Curtain Speach
Speech givin by Winston Churchill saying that Europe has been divided into a Communist controled East and a Democratic West. -
Truman Doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under the threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Marshal Plan
American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economics after the end of WWII -
NATO established
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based the North Atlantic treaty. -
China becomes communist
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Domino Theory
Theory that if one nation falls to communism, others around it wall fall too. -
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Korean War
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Warsaw Pact
Created for axis powers of WW2 to retaliate NATO. Gives them intergovernmental millitary alliances. This being set up "divides the world" into 2 big parts; Allies and Axis. -
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Vietnam War
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U2 Spy Plane shot down
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Berlin Wall built
The Berlin Wall was the wall that divided East and West Berlin from 1961-1989. -
Tet Offense
Stradegy used by Soviets in war to ambush the U.S and southern Vietnam people. They had the advntage of knowing the land and having this stradgey work effectivly -
Glasnost nd Perestroika
Translation: openness and restructuring. Gorbachev introduced big changes economically and internationally. -
Germany Reunites
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Berlin wall falls
Signified a start of German Unification and the start of the end of the Cold War. -
Warsaw Pact ends
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USSR Disolved