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The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union get together. They discuss what to do with postwar Germany and Europe. -
The leading members of the alliance get together to plan postwar peace while avoiding the mistakes of Paris peace conference. -
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats." The doctrine originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
The political, military, and ideological barrier that the Soviet Union created to seal themselves off. -
NATO's purpose is to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
"North Atlantic Treaty Organization" -
The war was North Korea vs South Korea, it started when communist North Korea invaded non-communist South Korea. Soviet and China backed the North, and United Nations backed the South -
The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. It ended with the U.S. withdrawing in 1973, causing the South to lose. -
Goal to overthrow the government. They didn't like Fulgencio Batista, so Fidel Castro did guerrilla warfare.
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A "race" between the Soviets and the U.S.A. to achieve superior spaceflight capability. -
The invasion of Egypt by Israel followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. -
East German Police blocked all ways to west Berlin. Communists pulled up train tracks and roads, and erected walls topped with barbwire. To completely isolate the west and block Germans from going to the west -
Soviet withdrawal. Lasted until 1989. Soviet wanted to make them communist. -
A nuclear disaster, the no 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. -
Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control.
