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The Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman asked U.S for assistance for Greece and Turkey to stall the communist domination of the two nations. -
The Marshall Plan
The plan financed money to economic recovery of Europe. It sparked the recovery of Europe in restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries. -
Berlin Airlift
The U.S and its allies supplied their people from the air because the Russians closed all possible transport ways to the occupied zones. This event lasted for more than a year. -
Creation of NATO
United States and eleven other western nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization because they didn't want to become a communist government. -
Korean War
North Korean soldiers crossed the 38th parallel which was the boundary between north and south Korea. American troops entered the war and American officials were concerned because it was a war against communism itself -
Rosenberg Case
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted of giving the Soviet Union on the recipe of the atomic bomb the U.S was building. -
Vietnam War
United States tried to prevent the spread of communism in Vietnam as nationalist forces were trying to unify the country into a communist country. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
Treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. It stated they'd come to the aid of one another if they were to be the victim of any foreign aggression. -
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana to overthrow the nation's American-backed government. CIA had 1,400 troops try invading Cuba and take over but Castro's troops outnumbered them. -
Berlin Wall Goes Up
The wall went up to keep Western "fascists" from entering East Germany. They didn't want them turning following communist rules because they didn't want to become communists. -
Cuban Missile Crises
Russia put missiles 90 miles away from U.S shores on Cuba. JFK decided to enact a blockade around Cuba making the U.S prepared for any inconvenience. -
Six Day War
Isreal took over the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. -
US Sends a Man to the Moon
Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon when the U.S and Soviet Union were competing to see who could win the race to space. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Communism wasn't spreading the way it should've been. November 9th the East German government official stated the was was coming down. The wall guards were letting people cross over and go through. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Eleven Soviet republics announced their leaving of the Soviet Union. They wanted to become independent states. The Soviet Union had fallen mainly due to all the radical reforms the Soviet president implemented during his presidency.
