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Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill delivers the speech in the United States. He is concerned about Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain is the division between Capitalists Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. He wanted America to take a bigger role in Soviet aggression. -
Truman Doctrine
He feared the spread of communism. He also created a policy named "Truman Doctrine" named after himself. This policy gave aid to any country that was threatened by communism. This gave the US trading partners. -
Marshall Plan
George Marshall was the secretary of the state. He offered a plan, the "Marshall Plan" which gave all European nations funding to rebuild their economies, but only if the money was spent on good. -
Berlin Airlift
This is where the British and US flew planes in which flooded the supplies in Western Berlin. This was only after the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin city. Medicine and food were the main supplies that were being flown. -
Berlin Blockade
The soviet Union created the blockade in order to keep out the western allies out of Berlin. They closed all rad and rail connection leaving all aircraft no room for landing. The connections were lost between France, Great Britain, and the US -
Nato
The US and 12 other countries created this plan, NATO in order to prtecr themselves and Western countries from being targeted and are led upon by the Soviets. -
Communists take over China
Mao and his communists defeated the National Government. Chiang failed to win the chinese people who were fed up with the war and government corruption. Chiang fled with his followers to Taiwan. He then became the leader of Mainland China and introduced communism to
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Korean war
North Korean communists invaded and attacks South Korea. They took over the South’s capital , Seoul. After this happened the two parts of Korea split and became two. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam declares independence from france, North and South Vietnam become separated. North vietnam wished to be united into just one country again under the lead Ho Chi Minh and many peoplefrom the south followed him because they didn’t care much for the North’s leader.This little debate cause a war to form between the two sides. -
Sputnik
The soviet Union launched the sputnik satellite into our space. it was the first satellite to completely orbit the Earth. The US feared that the soviets were ahead in space exploration and military mussels so they increased defense and began to move quicker on America’s Space Program. -
The great leap Forward
Maos 2nd five year plan to industrialize China. he wanted to produce a large amount of grain and steel and he believed if he did it, it would solve China's economical issues. But it failed which led to millions dying of starvation, he blamed others for this result -
Apollo program
John F kennedy gave out the mission to put a man on moon. But the challenge was how to bring him back safely. After many attempts and experimenting to create a safe and stable rocket they created the Apollo program which succeededthe very mission. john F kennedy started this dream but sadly was assassined before he could see this take place. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The soviet Union helped Cuba become a communist country by giving them nuclear weapons. the US became worried and fearful of being targeted at. Because it is not too far from the Us, we wouldn't have much time to retreat and protect ourselves from such damage. The cuban missle crisis ended on Oct. 28th when the Soviet =s agreed to remove their missels in china. While the U agreed to removed their own from Turkey. -
Cultural Revolution
mao Zeodong and the Red Guards began a political movement that lasted from 1966 - 1967. A campaign was brought in by Mao to clear out the communists of his competition or oppenents. He wanted to cleanse China of revolutionists in order to assert his authority over the Chinese Government. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
The soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakiain order to crush the Prague Spring. This resulted in the damage of their buildings.
