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The Marshall Plan
It 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 -
Creation of NATO
It is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
The Korean War
25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953. war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
It was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975. Cold War-era military conflict that lasted 19 years. -
Soviet launch Sputnik
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S. -
Bay Of Pigs
17–19 April 1961. The Bay of Pigs was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
To separate communist east Berlin from free west Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 16–28, 1962. 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other -
US sends a man to the moon
rican Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. Its been a space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to get to the moon first. -
Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its staunchest foes, and the visit ended 25 years of separation between the two sides. -
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. -
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 and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet team, who had won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament since 1954. -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was demolished no longer seperating East and West Berlin. -
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.
