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The Truman Doctrine
an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War -
The Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War -
Berlin Airlift
After World War II Germany was divided into 4 sectors and the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. This was known as the berlin airlift. -
Soviet Union gets the Atomic Bomb
The soviet union explodes thier first atomic bomb. The united states did not excpect the soviet union to come up with their own atomic bomb. -
Communist Revolution of China
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. -
Korean War
Northern korea got into a debate with south korea wich started the korean war between the north and the south where the U.S was on the south side of korea and china fough with the north side. -
Execution of the Rosenbergs
julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951. They were sentences to death by electric chair and were killed 3 years later by electric chair. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations. -
Warsaw Pact
was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Launch of Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. -
The Kitchen Debate
series of impromptu exchanges between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow -
U-2 Incident
happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
When germany was devided into 4 sectors on the 13 through the 14 germany laid down miles of barbed wire through the middle of berlin to show their sector line. On the 15th they started replacing the barbedwire with concrete which later became the Berlin wall. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Also known as the october crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
SALT Treaty
The united states and the soviete union agreed to limit the number of nucular missles in thier arsenal of weapons to use during war. -
Miracle on Ice
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
As the cold war started to end the leader of east berlin decided that he was going to let people from west berlin into the east side which was know as the fall of the berlin wall.
