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Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan was the program that provided financial aid to Western Europe after the devastating events of WWII. It provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding on the continent. Named after the U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, it was made as a four-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries and infrastructure heavily damaged during the war. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a response to the Soviet Blockade of land routes into West Berlin. The U.S. began a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. The Soviets actions were in response to the refusal of American and British officials to allow Russia more say in the economic future of Germany. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry. S Truman, and whom it was named after as well. Further down the road Truman would pledge to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. The Truman Doctrine was successful for over 40 years of U.S.-Soviet relations. -
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The Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th century competition between two Cold War enemies, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve a trip to space. A lot of its origins was in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between them after WWII. in 1958, NASA was created due to this and they launched the U.S. satellite, Explorer I. In the end, the U.S. won the Space Race as Russia made four failed attempts to launch a lunar landing craft between 1969 and 1972, which includes a launch-pad explosion. -
The Construction Of The Berlin Wall
The Construction of the Berlin Wall was Germany's communist governments attempt at keeping Western "fascists" from from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall sat about 100 miles from the border between the eastern and western occupation zones, in which the Yalta and Potsdam agreements split the city into similar sectors. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. After several days of tense negotiations, an agreement was reached between US President JFK and Khrushchev. -
Opening Relations With China
On this day, President Richard Nixon arrived in China for an official trip. He was the first U.S. president to visit the People's Republic of China since it was first established in 1949. This was a very important event for the U.S. because the U.S. was seeking to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War. -
The Falling Of The Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9th, 1989, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. The fall of the inner German border took place shorter afterwards.
