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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 Capitalist western Europe and communists eastern Europe. he wanted america to take a bigger role in soviet aggression. -
Truman doctrine
The United States provided political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces due to the establishment of president Harry S. Truman. It was supposed to help rebuild after the war and the United States pledged 13 billion of aid to Europe. -
NATO
NATO was created so that countries could defend themselves from the Soviet Union taking control of their nation. 12 countries were the ones who created this and it was established at the signing of the North Atlantic treaty. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Berlin blockade
The Soviet Union blocked the western allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under western control. The people were left without food, clothing, or medical supplies. The purpose was so that France, Great Britain, and the United States wouldn’t be able to travel to their sectors of Berlin. -
Marshall plan
The United States gave a large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them after World War II. The Marshall plan also was supposed to reduce the influence of communist parties within them. It was created by George c. Marshall and it was crafted as a four-year plan. -
Berlin airlift
The Berlin airlift was when the United States and British pilots began delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin due to the Soviet Union blockade. They carried about 2.3 million ton of cargo and it was difficult due to fuel and electricity. The Berlin airlift was successful, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. -
Communists take over China
In the Chinese revolution was when China was led by the communist party of China and Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the people’s republic of China. Mao and other communist leaders set out to reshape Chinese society. -
Korean war
750,000 soldiers from the north Korean army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the non-communists South Korea. The Korean war was between North Korea and South Korea. Nobody won the Korean war nor nobody ever signed a piece treaty. South Korea didn't even bother to sign the armistice agreement. -
Vietnam war
The Vietnam war was with north Vietnam against south Vietnam and it’s principal ally, the United States. More than 3 million people were killed. It was meant to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. -
Revolt in Hungary
The revolt in Hungary was a nationwide revolution against Hungarian people’s republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. It started as a student protest and it attracted thousands of people as they marched through the Budapest. A student died and was then wrapped in a flag and was held above the crowd which then started the revolution. The revolution ended by the soviets rolling their tanks into the Budapest. -
Sputnik
Russia successfully launched the worlds first satellite. It was called the Sputnik I and it was 58 cm and weight 183.9 pounds, it took 98 minutes to orbit the earth. People feared that the launch of the satellites could also translate into a launch of missiles. -
Great Leap Forward
It was a push by Mao Zedong to change a farming society to a modern, industrial society. Th goal was to do it within just 5 years but it was a failure. Millions of citizens were moved onto communes. Mao hoped to increase chinas agricultural output but also while pulling workers from agriculture into the manufacturing sector, he also wanted to free China from the need to import steel and machinery. Mao had bad planning and 45 million even died from the Great Leap Forward. -
Apollo program
It was created by NASA and it was designed to land people on the moon and bring them back safely to earth. There has been many canceled Apollo missions due to technical problems, the Apollo 1 fire, and a variety of more reasons. The program failed majority of the time but NASA finally got Apollo 11 to land on the moon successfully. -
Cuban missile crisis
It was a direct and dangerous war between United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war. The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union were in a 13 day political and military standoff. It brought the world to a brink nuclear disaster but ended peacefully. -
cultural revolution
china's communist party leader Mao Zedong was in charge of the cultural revolution. He wanted to claim his authority over the Chinese government. Mao shut down the nations schools which formed the massive youth mobilization, the mobilization took current party leaders to task for their embrace of bourgeois values and lack of revolutionary spirit. they also attacked and harassed members of the china's elderly and population. -
revolt in Czechoslovakia
Soviets invade Czechoslovakia because they protested. Tanks were attacking and invaded government buildings. Over 500 people were wounded and 50 were killed.
