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Marshall Plan
A program to rescue and aid Europe from disaster. Aid was offered to all European countries. -
Truman Doctrine
The first open acknowledgement of the cold war.The principle that the US would intervene worldwide in order to contain the spread of communism. -
Cold war
The U.S and Soviet Union had fought together as allies, but the U.S were cautious of thier communism goverment. The Soviets didnt like the Americans’, because of their refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community, and the U.S's delayed entry into World War II, which had resulted in millions of Russian deaths. This had created an enmity between the two. They threatened eachother with nuclear weapons. -
Creation of NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization): Defensive alliance of 10 western European nations, the United States, and Canada to stop Soviet expansion in Europe. -
Korean War
Japan took over Korea in 1910 and ruled it until August 1945. When WWII ended, Japanese troops north of the 38th parallel surrendered to the Soviets, and Japanese soldiers south of the 38th surrendered to the Americans. The South and North then started a war with eachother. -
Arms race
Acompetition between two or more parties to have the best armed forces.Created the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT), which was a series of treaties where the US and USSR agreed to begin limiting the number of nuclear weapons their country held.
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Launching of Sputnik
The soviets launched the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. This Led the space race between the U.S. and USSR. -
Space Race
The Launching of Sputenik I started off the Space race. -
Vietnam War
The U.S 's Cold War foreign policy played a major part in Vietnam. U.S. policy at the time was the domino theory, which believed that the “fall” of North Vietnam to Communism might trigger all of Southeast Asia to fall, setting off a sort of Communist chain reaction. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
After Cuban General batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro many cuban's fled. In 1961 the cubans were trained by Americans and ready to invade Cuba and gain Cuba back from Castro. Unfortunetly the Invasion failed, because they were out numbered by Castro's troops. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The U.S and Soviet union had gone into a 13 day standoff during the time of this crisis fighting over installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. Kennedy had decided to put a blockade around cuba to ensure the soviets knowledge of the U.S's power.War was avoided when Kennedy agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba.
