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Policy of Containment
State Department George Kennan claims the Soviet Union would take every chance possible to expand communism. He suggests the idea of 'containment' to keep this from happening. His idea became the root of the dominent US strategy for fighting communism throughout the entire cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman announces the USwould support foreign governments that are resisiting communist revolutions in the USSR. Convinved congress to appropriate $400 million to prevent the fall of -
Marshall Plan
$13 billion recovery package to aid Europe ater ww2. The USSR viewed this as an attempt to interfere with International affairs and refused to participate. -
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Marshall Plan
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Korean War
War between republic of Korea (supported by United Nations) and democratic peoples of Korea. A result of political from 1910 until end of WW2. Failure to hold free elections throughout the Korea peninsula, in 1948. North Korea were Communists and the south was “right wing Government” -
Comecon-Warsaw Pact
A treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in exsistance during the cold war. Est -
Berlin Wall Erected
Trucks and construction workers came to Berlin and they started tearing up the streets that entered Berlin, they strung barbed wire around the borders of westward and eastern Berlin, all communication was cuit -
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Cuban Misssle Crises
Leaders of Soviet Union and the united states had a stand o0ff and the only way that the soviet would remove their missiles was if we agreed not to invade Cuba and we secretly agreed to remove remove the missiles we have from Turkey -
The Gulf Of Tokin
Gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War, president knew that the people wouldn’t support the expansion of war. By summer the rebel forces established control of half of south Vietnam. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Afghanistan was already in the midst of a harsch civil war- Russian troopers landed in the capital. A few days later they shot and killed the current Prime Minister, who was trying to lead the country away from a religion based political system (Muslim) (he was communist) The Russians replaced him with one of their leaders, but keeping him in control strictly depened on the troops. America put a ban on rice exports to Russia and boycotted the Olympics being held there the next year. -
Berlin wall destroyed
Signs that communism in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia fell in 1988-1989. Nee exodus points opened to east germens that wanted to flea East Berlin. Germen official Gunter Schabowshi stated “permeate relocations can be done through all border check pointed between east Germany and West Berlin” . after wall Came down and Germanys sides came back together on October 3rd 1990