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Gi Bill
Provides educational assistance to service members, veterans, and their dependents after the cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to prevent the spread of the soviet unions politics/communism during the cold war. -
National Secarity Act
The National Security Act was restructuring of the United States Government's military and agencies after WWII, this Act took effects when the cold war started. -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid western Europe, in which the U.S gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild western economies. -
NATO
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member s through political and military means. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war fought between south and north Korea, it was a big problem in the cold war because the U.S supported south Korea and the soviet union supported the north. -
Brinkmanship
Brinkmanship is a term or thought during the cold was that described the tactic of seeming to approach war in order to make one retreat. -
Warsaw Pact
The soviet union and seven European country signed a treaty establishing the Warsaw pact, a mutual defense organization that put that soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Interstate Highway Act
The purpose of the interstate highway act was to have a long road in case a plane was in trouble in the was and needed somewhere to land safely. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
In the cold war period Dwight D. Eisenhower promised military or economic aid to any middle eastern country that needed help. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificial satellite launched into space by the soviet union. during the cold war the soviet union and the U.S already disagreed on many things and this made the U.S mad because they wanted to be the first to launch something into space, but the soviet union beat them to it. -
The Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs were a military invasion of Cuba that failed during the cold war. -
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Berlin wall
The Berlin wall was a defining symbol of the cold war, it's purpose was to separate families and keep people in the west from jobs and opportunity. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leaders of the U.S and soviet union engaged in a tense 13 day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear armed soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S shores. -
Nuclear test Ban Treaty
In the Cold War the military was doing a lot of testing and using nuclear weapons, well this treaty prohibits the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere.
