Early Cold War (1945-1960)

By Abel Jiji
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    Communism

    Communism - A society in which all properties belong to the government and citizens could not own anything.
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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - It is a communist society and the government took all the control for properties and other things.
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    Domino Theory

    Domino Theory - It is a theory that if one county goes down, the others will go down too. It is like a domino, if one domino falls the others fall with it.

  • United Nations Formed

    The United Nations was formed on October 24, 1945 and the United States finally came to existence.
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    Containtment

    Containment - Containment is the policy of the United States made to prevent the spread of Communism.

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.

  • 22nd Ammendment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift - It was created in response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin. The United States begiin a massive airlift bring food and supplies to West Berlin.
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    Arms Race

    Arms Race - It was a competition of who had the better nuclear weapons between the USSR and the United States.

  • NATO Established

    NATO was established on April 4th 1949. The main purpose of the NATO was to protect the rights and freedom of citizens.
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    Korean War

    The Korean War was the fight between South Korea and North Korea.

  • Rosenbergs Trials

    Julius and his wife were convincted of being a spy of comunism and was sentence to death called the Rosenbergs Trials.

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

    On the year 1952, the United States successfully detonated the First H-Bomb.

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

    Jonas Salk successfully invented the first Polio Vaccine.

  • USSR launches Sputnik

    The USSR lauches the first satellite and it was the World's first artificial satellite.