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Truman Doctrine
was a policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in ... President Harry S. Truman told Congress the Doctrine -
The Marshall plan
was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support -
Berlin Airlift
C-47 Skytrains unloading at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift. Carrying all this in would not be easy. -
NATO
An alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic -
Korean War
between North Korea and U.S.-backed South Korea, which lasted from 1950 to 1953 and was the first Cold War military action. -
The Polio Vaccine
Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat poliomyelitis. The first was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in 1952 -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 585 mm diameter shiny metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses -
NASA Established
he National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States -
Bay of pigs
Invasion, known in Hispanic America as La Batalla de Girón, was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary -
Casto's Cuban Revoultion
was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio -
Building the Berlin wall
was a barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany -
6-day war
Israel consistently expressed a desire to negotiate with its neighbors. In an address to the UN General Assembly on October 10, 1960, Foreign Minister Golda
