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G.I. Bill
This is one of the veteran benefits from Truman. This allowed veterans to be able to go back and get an education if they wanted to, for free. -
Truman doctrine
The Doctrine is about giving support with the military and economic aid. Greece and Turkey are in danger of communism. -
National Security Act
This is Cold War security. This act creates many department defenses such as the CIA and NSC. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin -
NATO
Stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This is the US and Western Europe. -
Warsaw Pact
United Communist Nations of Eastern Europe -
Interstate Highway system
The impact of the Interstate Highway System increased the ease of travel for Americans either for work or recreation. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
in the Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communism. -
Sputnik
The first Satellite placed into orbit by the Soviet Union making the U.S. amp up production toward the race to the moon. -
Bay of Pigs
This was a failed invasion to overthrow Castro. This causes an embarrassment to the US and military aid to Cuban exiles. This pushed Cuba to Soviet Union. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a 13-day argument between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
A treaty created to stop testing Nuclear missiles above ground, because of destruction to the environment. -
Berlin Wall
The wall separated the East and the West. This was also a symbol for Communism. Later on, easing tensions. -
Brinkmanship
This is the pushing to the verge of war. I hoping the opponent would break down. Events that are similar to this is the hydrogen bomb, arm's race, MAD, and military-industrial complex. Some effects include bomb shelters and "Duck and Cover".
