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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.[
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This was the process of transporting needed supplies to East Berlin.
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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.
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The Korean War was fought from 1950 to 1953 to contain communism, which was between the U.S. and North and South Korea.
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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.
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Established in 1957 as a direct respone to the Soviet launching of Sputnik
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This was a Russian satellite that initatied the space race between U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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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.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 in April 1961.
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This erected to close escape rouets for East Germans that were attemping to flee the Communist state.
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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
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The process where the U.S. resisting communism by extending financail aid to friendsly European nations rebulding again the destruction of WWII.