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Cold War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The U.S. government ordered the Times to stop publishing the information because it threatened national security. The case quickly came before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the government could not legally censor the newspaper because it could not prove that the publication actually hurt national security.
    - - The United States had begun requiring all young men to register for military service in 1940. This means that all young men could be called on, or drafted, to join the military if they were needed.
        
        Some young men fled to Canada in hopes of escaping the draft. Others joined in with other antiwar activists and burned their draft cards to protest what they saw as a pointless or unjust war.
  - - - Johnsons Plans
        
        Johnson announced plans to send 100,000 troops to South Vietnam immediately, with another 100,000 to follow. The United States did not declare war, but by the 1968, more than 500,000 U.S. soldiers were fighting in South Vietnam.
- - - - Instead, the Soviet Union pressed the countries of Eastern Europe to adopt communist governments based on the Soviet model. They did this by supporting each country’s Communist Party while the communists seized power
  - - - To prevent people from East Germany and other Soviet-controlled countries from escaping to the West, the East German government surrounded West Berlin with a barbed-wire barrier during the night of August 12–13, 1961.