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an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives
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Policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by comunism or totalitarian idealogy.
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a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe.
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a Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off the land acces to Berlin
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a military alliance that was created in order to ensure the safety of Freedon in Europe of memebered nations.
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A conflict that lasted from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by United Nations forces consisting primarily of U.S. troops.
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Found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets, the Rosenbergs were the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage.
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Korean War ended in an armistice, with neither side able to claim outright victory.
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The Warsaw Pact was an alliance creating an organised military among central and political ties
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The first artificial satellite to be put into geocentric orbit. Launched by the Soviet Union.
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Kennedy sends troops
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Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, became the first human to go into outer space
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An unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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Built to prevent people from East Berlin from crossing the border to West Berlin
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in October 1962, during the Cold War.
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the Moon
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Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, signed in Paris and entered into force January 17, 1973.
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Alan Shepard became the first American to go into outer space
