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Truman Doctrine
It was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. President Harry S. Truman announced it to Congress on March 12, 1947. When he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey, it further developed on July 4, 1948. It was meant to become the base of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world. -
Marshall Plan
It was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. The plan was the true beginning of the Cold War. It represented a radical departure from established American foreign policy doctrine. The United States transferred over $12 billion was transferred by the United State to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
The Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control during Post–World War II. 850,00 multi-layer paper sacks were required to the airlift per month. And, 39 British, 31 American and 13 German civilians lost their lives in the Berlin Airlift. -
McCarthyism
A campaign that was against so-called communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many people who were or did not belong to the Communist Party were accused and lost their jobs. It was more than 2000 government employees that lost their jobs. They destroyed many careers for people, such as writers, directors, producers, actors, actresses, and others in Hollywood. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
"It was 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 Space Race
The race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States. The competition was to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. The ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II was where it had its origins. The Russians and the Americans worked together to put a man on the Moon. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The German Democratic Republic began the construction of the Wall on 13 August 1961. The spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. He said at midnight that the citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders on November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began, -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was voted out of existence by the Supreme Soviet. The collapse was the process of Internal annihilation within the Soviet Union. It started in the late 1980s and was complete when the country broke up into 15 independent states in 1991. This was the end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.
