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Years of the Cold War

Truman Doctrine

1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

1955; An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1947)

A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

When was the Berlin Wall torn down?

November 9, 1989

Years of the Korean War

Cause of Korean War

North Korea (communist) invaded South Korea (republic)

Dividing line between North and South Korea

Result of Korean War

Korea remained divided at the 38th parallel. North Korea- Communist. South Korea- Democratic

What year did the USSR get the atomic bomb?

How did the USSR build the atomic bomb?

Russian spies in America

The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s; A witch hunt for communists