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Red Scare/ McCarthyism
During the war america had been on the alert for enemy spies and sabotage secret destruction of propert or interference with working factories. Joseph McCathy announced he had a list of 57 state names who were spies. -
Communist take contol of China
Mao Zedong fought to over throw Emperor Chiang. In october 1949 Mao set up the peoples republic of China. By december the communist had driven all of Chiangs forces from the chinese mainland. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman asked congress for $400 million dollars in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey -
Marshall plan
George Marshall proposed a large scale plan to help europe rebuild it's economy. -
NATO
By joinging NATO the United States made it clear that it would help to defend the nations of western Europe against any Soviet aggression -
Berlin wall
Many East Berlines fled to West Berlin because of Communism. That embrassed Germany and the Soviet Union so over the next 12 years they started built the Berlin wall. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union Formed a military alliances called the Warsaw pact. The Soviet union demanded complete loyalty from its Warsaw pact neighbors. -
Sputnik
In 1957 a Soviet rocket was launched Sputnik the worlds first artificial satellite. -
NASA
America built Nasa to compete against the Soviet union -
Bay of Pigs
American leaders worried that Cuba and the soviet Union were planning on invading the U.S -
U-2 spies
Gary Powers an american spy was sent to prison for 10 years because he was caught taking pictures of the Soviet Union. But he didn't surve all that time because Russia and america had a spy trade. -
Vietnam War
North vietnam went into communism then attacked south vietnam -
Cuban Missile crisis
Had shaken both America and the Soviet union officials. In al the years of the cold war the world never came as close to a full scale nuclear war. -
Star wars
was the defence meconizm to shoot down Soveit missels from space. -
glasnost
a policy of speaking out and honestly. -
Korean war
North Korea went into Communism . Later turned on South Korea trunin into the Korean war. -
Berlin Airlift/ Berlin blockade.
In responce Stalin closed all the roads,railways and river routes connecting Berlin to West Germany. In the end Truman decided to set up a huge airlift. Day after day planes flew in food,fuel and aother supplies to 2 million Berliners. -
Salt1/ salt 2
a treaty that agrred to limite the number of nuclear wear heads amd missles -
Fall of Communism
All of the countries joined together to take out Russia after its attack on poland
