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iron curtain speech
At Westminster College, Winston Churchill went to visit and declared that the Soviet Union separated the eastern and western countries. Churchill states ¨From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”
This was to separate Russia and its eastern allies from the west so they couldn't see what they were planning behind it. -
truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy that was issued by president Harry S. Truman in 1947. It stated that the United States would do whatever it takes to stop the spread of communism and the Soviet Union. -
berlin airlift
Since Berlin was trapped inside the soviet blockade, U.S and British pilots started delivering food and supplies by airplane there. This is important because it is known as the first battle of the cold war -
the marshall plan
The marshall plan was a law passed in 1948 to help rebuild western Europe. The united states gave over 12 millions dollars to help aid western Europe after world war II. -
berlin blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an important crisis that happened in the middle of the cold war. The Soviet Union blocked the western allies roads, railways, canals access to Berlin under western control. With the help of the berlin airlift, they lifted the blockade on may 12, 1949. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between North American and European countries.This was to protect themselves from possible threats from the soviet union. It was signed on the 4th of April, 1949. -
chinese communist revolution
the chinese communist revolution was a revolution in China led by Mao Zedong and the communist party of China. The result was the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. -
korean war
The Korean War began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. North Korea had help from the Soviet Union and China while South Korea got help from the United Nations. The war ended on July 27th, 1953 because of a cease-fire. -
vietnam war
In the 1950s, Vietnam wanted to win independence from France so they drove them out. They then split Vietnam into two, with the north side becoming communist. When South Vietnam was being threatened by communists, the United States send troops to help fight as well. The United States won the war, with North Vietnam signing a peace treaty -
revolt in hungary
in 1956, also known as the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, was a revolt led by the Hungarians against the communist party and the soviet union policies. it went on for a little less than a month, still begin able to spread quickly and collapse its government. -
sputnik
Sputnik was first artificial Earth satellite. it launched into orbit October 4th, 1957 into a elliptical low Earth orbit. It took 98 minutes for it to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. it orbited the earth for three weeks before slowing falling back into the atmosphere. -
great leap forward
The great leap forward was a economic campaign that wanted to change China from a agricultural country to a modern, industrial society. The leader of all this was communist leader Mao Zedong, who wanted this change to happen in only a span of 5 years. Unfortunately, this didn't happen do to poor planning from the Chinese government. -
apollo program
The apollo program was a spaceflight program led by NASA, which was designed to be able to flight humans safely to the moon and back. Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 successfully completed this task (apollos 7 and 9 didn't have a crew onboard). It started in 1961 and was completed in 1975. -
cuban missile crisis
the Cuban missile crisis was a 13 - day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. This was over the presence of missiles sites in Cuba, which became an important topic in the cold war. However, the confrontation ended peacefully, with the Soviet Union getting rid of their weapons in Cuba while the United States withdrew theirs from Turkey. -
cultural revolution
The cultural revolution was a mass movement that was led by communist leader Mao Zedong. His goal was to take control and get rid of the existing government so he could spread communism over China. It was all in all a failure with it being a decade long era of political and social confusion, ending in 1976. -
revolt in czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968, the soviet union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia.
