Cold war

What is it?

• 40 year standoff between the U.S and Soviet Union
• U.S thought that the S.U wanted to spread communism

Communism

• Wealth is distributed evenly to everyone
• Government gets a lot of power

Berlin wall

What is the Berlin Wall?

• S.U took the city of berlin amd made it a communism place
• They built a wall to keep the west out and the east in

Containment

• U.S policy to prevent the spread of communism

1st Way

• Marshall plan gave $13 billion dollars to Europe to repair it

2nd way

• Truman doctrine
• A promise to supply military and economic aid
• to any country struggling to maintain a democracy

3rd way

• NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• It was a military alliance between the U.S, Canada,
• and various Western European countries

Wars

• Most wars in the time period of the cold war was part of it
• Communism v.s democracy

Ended

• When S.U tried to invade Afghanistan they failed
• That slowly made S.U fall apart
• Which ended the war

Bonus

• The ( kinda ) reason U.S and S.U never had nuclear war was
• because no one would win and everyone would die