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The Truman Doctrine is established
Announcing a joint session of Congress, Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey. President Truman declared, "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union had blocked off the rail roads and water access so they couldn't get food nor fuel so the Untied States airlifted all the needs and necessity items. -
The Marshall Plan is introduced
The Economic Recovery Act of 1948 was signed by Truman and was to help with recovering the economy of nations effected by WW2. -
Formation of NATO
NATO or The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to provide protection and security against the Soviet Union. United States, Canada, and several Western European nations created NATO and it was also the first peacetime alliance. -
Start of the Korean War
After five years of conflict and tension on the Korean peninsula the Korean War began, the Northern Korean Army invaded South Korea in a planned and coordinated general attack along many strategic points on the the 38th parallel -
The Eisenhower Doctrine is established
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East" a middle eastern country could request American economic aid from U.S. military forces, this Doctrine almost completely wiped out the Soviet threat by letting the U.S. forces "to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independence of such nations". -
End of the Korean War
Once Eisenhower became president he decided to sign the Korean Armistice Agreement which ended the fighting as well as South Korea gained a bit of territory northeast of the 38th parallel, and prisoners were exchanged -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
Formally known as the Treaty of Friendship. This was a defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, by the Soviet Union also seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe. -
Sputnik launched into orbit
While the space race was going on Russia announced that they had launched a satellite into space that was called sputnik which started the space age as well as beat and showed up the United States. -
U-2 Incident
An American U-2 spy plane was scouting and taking pictures deep inside the soviets territory and he ended up getting shot down then he got captured after ejecting out of the plane and this was considered a civilian lose and ended the war.