Cold War

By EmilyDirrigl

  • Truman Doctrin

    Truman Doctrin
    His goal was containment, first turned his attention to Europe

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    the first great confrontation of the cold war

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    sent vast amount of money to 16 nations in Europe

  • Berlin airlift

    Berlin airlift
    places began to fly in food, clothing, medicine, and food into Berlin places began to fly in food, clothing, medicine, and food into Berlin

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
    U.S. and Canada formed a treaty that any attack against one country in NATO would mean an attack against all

  • Koreon war

    Koreon war
    the first major proxy war

  • Vietnam war

    Vietnam war
    U.S. took conrol of half of Vietnam and the other half went to war on the other half of Vietnam to get it back

  • Bay of pigs invasion

    Bay of pigs invasion
    cuban exiles landed there and were quickly killed or captured

  • Berlin wall

    Berlin wall
    a wall dividing the city so anyone who tried to escape could not, a grim symbol of a divided Europe

  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis
    the soviet union attacked the U.S. from Cuba because it was so close to Florida