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The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an internaitonal relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947, which states that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere. -
The Marshall Plan
This was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WWII in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin airlift was to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. Flew over 200,000 flights in one year, proving up to 4700 tons of necessities daily, such as fuel and food to the Berliners. -
Soviet Union gets the Atomic Bomb
Soviet Russia tests it's first atomic bomb. -
Communist Revolution fo China
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creaion of the People's republic of China. -
Korean War
War between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Primarily the result of the political dision of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the pacific war at the end of WWII. -
Execution of the Rosenbergs
The Rosenbergs were executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison.The couple were the first vivilians in American history to be executed for espionage. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearing were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. -
Warsaw Pact
This was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states f central and eastern europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Launch of Sputnik
When Russia launched a satellite with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. -
The Kitchen Debate
Series of impromptu exchanges between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nitxon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American national exhibition at sokolniki park in Mosow. -
U-2 Incident
This was when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
Completely cutting off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. Also know as The death strip -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Time when the United States and the soviet union almost had a nuclear war. -
SALT Treaty
Its the Strategi Arms Limitation talks were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Miracle on Ice
This is the name in American poplular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Starting that eveing and in the days and weeks that followed, people came to the wall with sledgehammers or otherwise hammers and chisels to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts of it in the process and creating several unofficial border crossings. These people were nicknamed "Mauerspechte".
