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The Cold War

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Included the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union for 7 days
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II with the aim of preventing another war
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    Winston Churchill claimed an Iron Curtain was descended upon Europe, which separates the Soviet Union and the Western European countries
  • HUAC

    HUAC

    HUAC was a committee that probed Communist infiltration of the government
  • Oponnents

    Oponnents

    The U.S. and the Soviert Union were allies during WWII, but both countries had spied on each other, and as communism started to spread, a war was begging to form between the capitalist and communist countries.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Gave $400 billion in economic and military aid to Turkey ad Greece
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    $13 billion in aid given to rebuild Western Europe
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    U.S. Airlift food and supplies into the city of West Berlin
  • Containment

    Containment

    After World War II, American leaders developed the policy of containment to resist and stop the spread of communism
  • The People's Republic of China

    The People's Republic of China

    Civil War in China ended in a communist victory, and as the communists defeated the nationalists in 1949, they renamed China "The People's Republic of China". But, the U.S. refused to recognize it until 1972.
  • NATO

    NATO

    Alliance to support one another military
  • Eisenhower's stance on the Cold War

    Eisenhower's stance on the Cold War

    Eisenhower embraced the policy of containment and felt that any other policy would risk a confrontation with the Soviet Union
  • SEATO

    SEATO

    To prevent the "Domino Theory" in the Middle East
  • Early US involvement in Vietnam

    Early US involvement in Vietnam

    The U.S. and 7 other nations formed SEATO pledging to protect South Vietnam. The U.S. supported South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem because he was an anti-communist. Subsequently, U.S. trained the "Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    Space Race between the two countries between 1957 and 1969
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Eisenhower Doctrine

    Offered economic and military support if communism threatened the Middle East
  • Defeat of the French

    Defeat of the French

    In 1958. the area became a French Colony called Indo-China. In 1945, Ho Chi Minh organized a Communist Party and declared Vietnam's independence from France. His troops were called Vietcong.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The soviet union begins constructing the Berlin Wall which separated Berlin into 4 zones. At the same time, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States.
  • The Gulf of Tonkin

    The Gulf of Tonkin

    August 1964, U.S. patrol ships were allegedly attacked by NVA gunboats in the Gulf of Tonking, causing Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, granting President Johnson the power to take "all necessary measures to repel any further armed attacks"
  • Ho Chi Minh Trail

    Ho Chi Minh Trail

    A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the vietcong in the South