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The Marshall Plan
The US should provide aid to all European nations that need it. This move is not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.“European Recovery Program”.Secretary of State, George Marshall. $12.5 billion of US aid to Western Europe extended to Eastern Europe and USSR it was rejected. Some countries turned down the offer.Effects of the Plan are Lasted for 3 years, it worked,Successful recovery in Western Europe -
Creation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization .An attack on one is an attack on all. Ends US isolationism.Formed to stop the spread of communism -
The Korean War
North Korea- Communist- aided by the Soviet Union. South Korea- anti-communist.North and South Korea divided at the 38th parallel. US refused to send weapons to South Korea prior to the war, afraid that they would invade North Korea. North Korea had Soviet and Chinese help and approval to attack.North Korea invaded South Korea. US supports South Korea through UN (United Nations) forces. Outcome- was a stalemate- the border became the Demilitarized Zone (essentially the 38th parall -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union and their satellite nations pulled out of NATO and formed their own. Organization- the Warsaw Pact- an alliance trying to stop the spread of democracy. -
Bay of Pigs
Caused by the desire to remove Fidel Castro (he was Communist).Castro Nationalized sugar plantations, causing American businesses to lose money.Cuba 90 miles from the US. US CIA trained Cuban exiles to attack and remove Castro from office. US planes were suppose to bomb airfields prior to the invasion. They did not do the job. Exile forces failed and were destroyed. Exiles were kept as prisoners and paraded as an example. US paid to get the exiles back Eisenhower planned it, -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Caused by U-2 planes spying on Cuba and spot missile bases supplied for by Soviet Union.Soviet Union supports Cuba (allies). Going to war with Cuba means going to war with Soviet Union.- Action: Quarantine- stop Soviet ships and inspect them for weapons. Effects: Soviet Ships did turn around with the guarantee that the US would not invade Cuba. Soviet got rid of the missiles in Cuba. US missiles in Turkey (pointed at Soviets) were removed -
The Six Day War
The Six-Day War took place in June 1967. The Six-Day War was fought between June 5th and June 10th. The Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter what the Israelis saw as an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel. -
US sends a man to the moon
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the United States was surprised to find themselves behind in the race to space. Still behind the Soviets in the Space Race four years later, President John F. Kennedy gave inspiration and hope to the American people in his speech to Congress on May 25, 1961 in which he stated, -
Olympic Rivalry: 1972 basketball game
Nearly 40 years ago, shortly after midnight on Sept. 10, 1972, the U.S. men’s basketball team, of which I was a member, took the floor in a sports hall in Munich to play the Soviet Union for the gold medal in the Olympics, a game that would be broadcast worldwide. Everyone in the Olympic Village had witnessed the horrifying events that had played out just five days earlier—the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists in which two Israelis were killed. -
1980 Olympic Hockey game
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22. The United States team, made up of amateur a collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet team, who had won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament since 1954. -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
The city of Berlin is in the eastern portion of Germany about thirty-five miles west of the post-1945, Polish border and located on the Spree River. The early town had become the capital of the Mark of Brandenburg at the end of the fifteenth century and later capital of the kingdom of Prussia. When the German states created the German Empire in 1871, Berlin became the capital of the new Germany. -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
Wall began Thousands of people at the border checkpoints and the Brandenburg Gate fell into each other's arms with joy. The notorious barrier had separated friends, relatives and loved ones for over 28 years. The division of Germany began with the end of the Second World War in 1945. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The collapse of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics radically changed the world's economic and political environment. No other conflict of interest dominated the post World War Two world like the cold war did. One man is credited with ending the cold war, Mikhail Gorbachev. This however was not the biggest event Gorbachev was responsible for. The end of the cold war was just a by-product of the other major event he was involved with. -
Vietnam War
France controlled Indochina (this consisted of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc.). Japan took over this land during WWII. With US help, France tried to re-colonize the area after WWII. Leader of the Vietnamese Communist- Vietminh. Leader Ho Chi Minh. France and the US worked to liberate Vietnam. Vietnam vs. France: Vietnam celebrated independence after WWII. Vietminh took over the majority of the country. France recolonized in 1946. War began.
