timeline

  • truman doctrine

    The United States could no longer stand alone and allow forcible expansions of soviet
  • marshall plan

    proposed that the united states provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar europe
  • nato formed

    by the united states canada and several western European nations to provide collective security against the soviet union
  • korean war

    the Korean war was fought between north and south Korea from 1950 to 1953
  • berlin wall built

    The berlin wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled west berlin of the federal republic of germany
  • berlin walls come down

    a mass protest sent the wall down