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cold war
with the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951 The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole.’ The plan is named for Secretary of State George C Marshall, who announced it in a commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5,1947 -
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Berlin airlift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.they dropped supplies off in Berlin in aircraft -
second great migration
the migration had dealt with African Americans over 5 million left from up north to the south and southwest they left do to similarities of the first migration but mostly for the jobs that continued to open up the states offered skilled jobs in defense industry after the war mass production was needed american had become a highly urbanized area -
creation of polio vaccine by dr jonas salk
In 1947, Salk took a position at University of Pittsburgh, where he began conducting research on polio, also known as infantile paralysis. ... The vaccine used polio viruses that had been grown in a laboratory and then destroyed. Preliminary testing of the polio vaccine began in 1952 - the shot given mostly to children.May 25, 2016 -
creation of nasa
national aeronautics and space administration
NASA made it possible for america to see and described envied by the soviet union -
berlin wall construction
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9 1989 -
gi bill
it gave serviceman chances to go to collages and trade schools or buy houses or business because serviceman were going to trade it help advance technology because lots of serviceman used of money to buy homes to start families making mass productions on houses in urban areas -
Apollo 11
the Apollo 11 was the biggest event during the space race between the usd soviet union it was significant because buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first people to step foot on the moon to help secure a win for us in space race -
air conditioning
many of the central changes in our society after ww2 wouldn't have been possible if ac was no keeping homes and workplace coo