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The house un-american activities committee brought the cold war home in another way.
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In 1949, the Soviets tested an atom bomb of their own.
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In 1950, a National Security Council Report known as NSC-68 had echoed Truman's recommendation that the country use military force to "contain' communist expansionism anywhere it seemed to be occuring.
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Since the 1950's the united states had been committed to the survival of an anticommunist government in the region.
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In June 1950, the first military action of the cold war began when the soviet-backed North Korean People's Army invaded it's Pro-Western neighbor to the South. Truman sent the American military into Korea.
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The american military into Korea dragged to a stalemate and ended.
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A soviet R-7 interconinental ballistic missile launched sputnik (Russian for 'traveler"), the world's first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into Earth's orbit.
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In 1958, the U.S. launched it's own satellite, Explorer I, designed by the U.S. Army under the direction of rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun, and what came to be known as the Space Race was underway.
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In 1950's and 1960's saw an epidemic of popular films that horrified moviegoears with depictions of nucleur devastation and mutant creatures.
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By the early 1960's it seemed to be clear to American leaders that if they were to successfully "contain" communist expansionism there, they would have to intervene more actively on Diem's behalf.
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He signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALTI), which prohibited the manufacture of nucleur missiles by both sides and took a step toward reducing the decades-pold threat of nucleur war.
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Took office in 1985 and introduced two policies that redefined Russia's relationship to the rest of the world; "glashost," or political openness, and "perestroika, "or economic reform."
