Cold+War


 * Amy Ma**

Cold War


 * Conflicts and Doctrines Pertaining to Europe and America**
 * Iron Curtain Speech
 * by Churchill
 * Explained communist/democratic division across Europe
 * Truman Doctrine
 * America provided money ($400 million) for countries that felt threatened by the expansion of Communism
 * started off with Greece and Turkey
 * Marshall Plan
 * America donated $13 billion to rebuild war-torn Europe
 * Soviet Union did not partake
 * Bribe
 * Molotov Plan
 * Soviet Union created the economic union of Eastern European Nations
 * NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
 * Agreement between United States and the Western European countries to help each other when attacked
 * Warsaw Pact
 * Agreement between Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries to help each other when attacked
 * Retaliation pact of NATO
 * Berlin Blockade
 * Closing of all transportation leading to Berlin (blockage of eastern region from the west)
 * Berlin Airlift
 * United States sent 2 million tons of supplies to Berlin via planes


 * Conflicts Pertaining to America and Cuba**
 * Fidel Castro
 * Leader of Cuba
 * Lead revolution in Cuba
 * United States was unhappy; Soviet Union supported Castro
 * Bay of Pigs
 * Kennedy attempted to crush revolution by invading Cuba and overthrow Castro
 * Failed
 * Cuban Missile Crisis
 * Soviet Union putted missiles in Cuba
 * United States and Soviet Union made an agreement to get missiles away
 * Avoided nuclear war


 * Conflicts Pertaining to Asia**
 * Korean War
 * North Korea (supported by Soviets) vs. South Korea (supported by Americans)
 * US invaded North Korean, repelled by Chinese army
 * War ended with division of Korea into two separate countries
 * China Falls to Communism
 * Communist Leader: Mao Zedong
 * Vietnam War
 * Ho Chi Minh (North - Vietcong)- Soviet aid, Ngo Dinh Diem (South) -US aid; US overthrew Diem regime
 * Guerrilla forces very effective against US, US failed; Viets opposed their government, supported Vietcong
 * Vietnam forcibly reunited by Communist armies from the North

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