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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism -
Berlin Airlift
The airlift began after World War II when Germany was occupied territory and Berlin was surrounded by the Soviet zone. The city itself was divided into four sectors controlled by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. -
Creation of NATO
NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. After the destruction of the Second World War, the nations of Europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security. -
The Korean War
the war was between North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea).the korea war was similar to the civil war in the U.S. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance (1955–1991), more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States. U.S leaders lost the american public's support for the war. -
bay of pigs
eight bombers left nicaragua to bomb caban airfields. U.S used B-26 bombers and painted them to look like cuban air force. the bombers missed many of there targets and most of the air force untouched. -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
On August 13, 1961, East Germany began closing the border between West and East Berlin, beginning with barbed wire.There was a rush of people to get out before the border was completely sealed. Families had become separated, and people accustomed to daily crossing into the West to work . -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the 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. -
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
one some step for man one giant leap for mankind.The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. There have been six manned U.S. landings and numerous unmanned landings, though no soft landings have occurred since 1976. -
Olympic Rivalry: 1972 basketball game
In the chill of the Cold War, the 1972 U.S. basketball team went up against the U.S.S.R.and was cheated out of a gold medal. Former representative Tom McMillen, who was on the team, offers a peace plan. -
US Invades Grenada
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 United States led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation with a population of about 91,000. resulted in a U.S. victory within a matter of weeks. -
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. -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
the division started at the end of WWII.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.
