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Buffer States of the USSR
Poland, Germany, and the Soviet Union were referred to as when they were non-communist states before World War ll - when they were communist states after World War ll. -
Communist Win China
The communist take power in 1945. -
Atomic Bomb
The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Molotov Plan
The system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman doctrine
An American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. -
U.S. aid to Greece
The extension of military and economic aid to Greece. -
U.S. aid to Turkey
In May 1947, two months after Truman's request, a large majority of Congress approved $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece. -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid Western Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin blockade was one of the first major international crisis of the cold war. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO established
An intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries. -
USSR Gets Atomic Bomb
The Soviets tested their first atomic bomb. -
Korean War
A war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Coup in Iran
The overthrow of the democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. -
Coup in Guatemala
A covert operation carried out by the U.S Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan president and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. -
Warsaw pact formed
Formally the treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance, was a collective defense signed in warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states. -
Beginning of troops in Vietnam
A conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
Suez Canal Crisis
An invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Isreal followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
Hungary (rebellion)
A nationwide revolt against the communist government of the hungarian people's republic and soviet-imposed policies. -
Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's border. -
Cuba (missile crisis)
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
China explodes atomic bomb
On October 16, 1964, China successfully explodes its first atomic bomb. China developed their own nuclear technology. -
Coup in Chile
a watershed event in both the history of chile and the cold war. -
Communist Angola
A self-declared socialist state established in 1975 after it was granted independence from Portugal, akin to the situation in Mozambique. -
End of troops in Vietnam
The troops left Vietnam on April 30, 1975. The Vietnam war was the longest US combat force participation. -
Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
The rising opposition to the somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan. -
War in El Slvador
a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. -
Evil empire speech
With the Soviet Union and the US at odds over nuclear weapons and politics, Regan believed that by spreading the love and sharing American traditions. -
Star Wars (S.D.I)
Intended to develop a sophisticated antiballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries. -
Iran Contra Affair
A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Regan Administration. -
Fall of the USSR
The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26 , 1991 , officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of teh Soviet Union.