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Stalin hostile speech
stalin declared that comminisum and capitolism were incompatable -
Truman Doctrine
Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War -
Marshall Plan
technical assistance provided through the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) -
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
the communists moved into Czechoslovakia and spred their influance -
NATO
NATO was approved by congress -
Korean War
Split korea into two natiuons one north and one south... this war still rages today -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
A mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War -
Vietnam war
prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government -
Bay Of Pigs
unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba -
Berlin wall goes up
Physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. However, it was also the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
East German people, through their courage and non-violent resistance, unexpectedly brought down the Berlin Wall -
fall of the soviet union
disintegrated into fifteen separate countries
