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truman doctrine
american foreign policy made to help people who were threatend by soviet forces, -
berlin airlift
225 airplanes, bring in over 2 million tons of supplies, a plane leaves every 3 minutes,only have one chance to land, the air crew was not allowed to get off plane, planes would only leave one way. -
soviet union gets atomic bomb
the U.S did not think the soviet union was capable of getting ahold of nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
communist revolution of china
it ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party, these two have been in conflict since the 1920's, -
korean war
war between north and south korea, The U.S joined south kore while china and soviet union joined the north in the war. after 3 years of war they all agreed on a armistice. which put the war to an end. -
execution of the rosenbergs
U.S married couple that were also U.S spies that leaked the atomic secrets to the soviet union but never admitted to actually doing it. -
army-mccarthy hearings
a hearing that took place because they beleive that mccarthy may have improper influence to win preferential treatment for a former staff member so army charged him with it. -
warsaw pact
a defense treaty that made soviet union in command of the arm forces and the members of states. the memebers includes hungary,east germany,poland,romania,albania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria. -
the launch sputnik
the soviet union launches the first satllite, they wanted to beat U.S by being the first to get to space, -
the kitchen debate
vice president nixon and the leader of the soivet union got into a heated aruguement about capitalism and communism in the middle of a kitchen where it was getting set up for a fair was known as the most famous episode of the cold war. -
U-2 incident
U.S U-2 spy plan was shot down in a soviet union airspace, also captured the pilot, they put powers in prison for a total of 10 years but he was released after only serving two the U.S had a soviet union spy so they did the first ever "spy swap" -
building of the berlin wall
2 days after building a barb wire fence to seal of the east and west parts of berlin they decided the only way to permently keep the west berlin people away from everyone else is to build a wall to keep the people they do not want in out. -
cuban missile crisis
a 13day confrontation between the U.S and the soviet union, closes to ever become near to a nuclear conflict, they settled on a promise that the U.S will not invade cuba. -
SALT treaty
treaty was signed in moscow, this was the first time during the cold war that the soviet union and the U.S agreed to limit the number of nuclear missles they use on each other. -
mircale on ice
happend 35 years ago, U.S hockey team went against the soviet union in the lake placid olypimcs. soviets have the best hockey team in world but they were defeated. -
the fall of the berlin wall
the wall was to divide up berlin, make up of mostly barb wire and concrete, was made to keep the western fascists out of the east part of berlin. -
the marshall plan
the american initiative aid to help western eruope, the U.S gave them $13 billon dollars to help them rebuild their economies after the war.
