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Cold War
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Truman Doctine
This speech stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.[ -
Berlin Airlift
This was the process of transporting needed supplies to East Berlin. -
NATO
This was a military alliance of 1949 between North America and Western European nations that pledges each year will come to the aid of each other if attacked by an outside enemy. -
Korean War
The Korean War was fought from 1950 to 1953 to contain communism, which was between the U.S. and North and South Korea. -
The Polio Vaccine
The Polio Vaccine was an eradication tool for dangerous diseases that can cause muscules to stiffen and weaken so much that poeple can become paralyzed. -
NASA Established
Established in 1957 as a direct respone to the Soviet launching of Sputnik -
Sputnick
This was a Russian satellite that initatied the space race between U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Castro's Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 in April 1961. -
Building the Berlin Wall
This erected to close escape rouets for East Germans that were attemping to flee the Communist state. -
6-Day War
The 6-Day War was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria -
The Marshall Plan
The process where the U.S. resisting communism by extending financail aid to friendsly European nations rebulding again the destruction of WWII.
