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iron curtain speech
Winston Churchill was the one that gave the speech. The reason he ave his speech was because Eastern Europe was controlled by the Soviet Union. It happened March 5th, 1946. He gave his speech in Fulton, Missouri. -
truman doctrine
it happened in 1947. Great Britain, Soviet Union, Greece, Turkey, and United States were involved. President Truman declared immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece. -
berlin blockade
it went on from June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949. they divided west Berlin and eastern Germany. the US, UK, and France decided to put together different occupation zones of Germany. The Soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the 3 Allies -
marshall plan
it was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was in 1948 when enacted and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. it was also known as the European Recovery program. It also went through 1951 -
berlin airlift
its was during the Berlin blockade. The US and UK started airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. the US & UK had few options if hostilities broke out, because of the draw down in U.S. and British combat forces since the end of the Second World War, the Red Army stationed in and around Berlin dwarfed the Western Allied military presence. -
NATO
the Soviet Union and Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. it was the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations. it's also known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
communist take over china
Mao Zeodong had a strong support system of peasants because he promised land redistribution experience and motivated the military. He ordered land to be taken from the wealthy and redistributed amongst the peasantry resistance was met with violence. Roads, railways, farms and factories where in a shocking state of disrepair and treasury was bankrupt after its entire gold reserves were taken away to Taiwan by the Nationalists. -
korean war
The war was against South and North Korea but Chine was on North Koreans side and so was the Soviet Union but the US sent 90% of our troops to help South Korea. The reason they fought was because North Korea wanted reunification under communist rule. About 2.5 million people died. -
vietnam war
it went from November 1, 1955 all the way to April 30, 1975. A conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam. a manifestation of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. 1978 of “boat people,” refugees fleeing the economic restructuring imposed by the communist regime. -
revolt in hungary
A soviet lead named Nikita Chrushchev attacked when Joseph Stalin was in rule. Imre Nagy became premier, agreeing to establish a multiparty system. On November 1, 1956, he declared Hungarian neutrality and appealed to the United Nations for support, but Western powers were reluctant to risk a global confrontation. November 4 the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution, and Nagy was executed for treason in 1958. -
sputnik
it was the world's first artificial satellite. the size of a beach ball, weighed 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. The Soviet Union had launched it. when Sputnik I launch in October, the U.S. Defense Department responded to the political furor by approving funding for another U.S. satellite project. -
great leap forward
it moved more rural families into communes. it was a disaster due to poor planning and inefficiency. communes falsely reported high production of food to impress Mao and it left them starving -
cuban missile crisis
The Soviet Union and Cuba were both involved. The Soviet Union were nuclear- armed and charged missiles on Cuba. It happened in October 1962. The US was also involved. -
revolt in czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. It happened in 1968. Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union were involved but Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Bulgaria into place by announcing Warsaw Pact military exercises. -
cultural revolution
Mao Zeodong was the communist leader. Mao had ordered land to be taken from the wealthy. There was the great leap forward and it was a complete fail. It was from 1966 to 1976. It happened in China
