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• NATO

  • Formed in the year 1949
  • Ensures the freedom and security of Eastern European countries
  • First peacetime military service 
  • Values of democracy and allows members 
  • Threat to the soviet union 
  • Ensures the nationalism and militarism don't occur again
• benefits of NATO

  • Collaborative defence 
  • Cooperative across the atlantic 
  • Spreading democracy
• Negatives of NATO

  • Testing enemies 
  • Conflict 
  • investing at least 2% of GDP annually on defence
• Truman Doctrine

  • Announced by Harry S. Truman in 1947
  • Started to spread communism in Europe and to expand the Soviet union 
  • Provided military and economic assistance to Greece and Turkey to prevent their fall to communism
• Marshall Plan

  • Announced by US secretary of state George Marshall in 1947
  • Aimed to rebuild war torn european and prevent the spread of communism 
  • Offered financial an technical assistance to European Nations devastated by WW2
  • Helped create a more favorable environment for democracy and capitalism
• Berlin Blockade

  • The Berlin war was used to divide the west and east of Berlin 
  • Started in 1963 and ended in 1989
  • Created to stop migration of the west and east people
  • West berlin was under Roosevelt 
  • East Berlin was under Stalin
  • West berlin was capitalist community and East berlin was a communist community
  • Stalin wanted to stop capitalist community so he started the war
• Korean War

  • Started in 1950 , ended in 1952
  • Started to prevent the spread of communism in North Korea 
  • North Korea was suppoted by the USSR and China 
  • South Korea was supported by UN and USA 
  • There was a line that was initiated by the US known as the 38th parallel which divided North and South Korea.
• Impact of Korean War

  • Solidified the division of North and South Korea 
  • Geopolitical division 
  • Life loss (2000000)
• Vietnam War

  • To prevent communist domination in south-east Asia 
  • 1957-1975
  • North Korea was supported by Soviet Union and China 
  • South Korea was supported by US
• Impact of Vietnam War

  Severely damaged the US economy
• Iron curtain

  • Making division between eastern and western europe after WW2
  • 1945-1980
  • Established NATO 
  • Symbolized the start of cold war 
  • Popularized by Winston Churchill 
  • Eastern Europe was under Soviet Union and they did not want to be associated with non soviet controlled areas such as Western Europe 
  • Impact - eastern Europe fell under Soviet control
• Space Race


  Competition between USA and USSR to have the best technology in space
• Space Race


  • USA & USSR fought for the best technology in space
  • USA and USSR captured Germanys rocket engineers and rocket technology
  • Both countries announced that they would be launching satellites in the orbit
  • Both superpowers launched their satellites but only Russia was successful
  • USA increased funds for NASA and sent explorer 1
  • USA launched the Apollo program which was to land the first man on moon before the end of a decade
  • Apollo 2 went to space and USA won the space race as Soviet Unions landing attempts were failing
  • US and USSR created a joint space program
• USA and USSR captured Germanys rocket engineers and rocket technology


  End of WW2
• Both countries announced that they would be launching satellites in the orbit

  1955
• Both superpowers launched their satellites but only Russia was successful


  1957
• Apollo 2 went to space and USA won the space race as Soviet Unions landing attempts were failing


  1969
• US and USSR created a joint space program

  1975
• The US and USSR relations improved so they created a joint space program which showed improvement of relations in late cold war
• peace keeping 


  the maintaining of peace of people , help in conflicts and maintain security
• peace making 


  measures to address conflicts an usually involves diplomatic action to bring parties at a negotiated agreement
• peace building 


  aims to reduce risk of lapsing or re-lapsing into conflict