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6-Day War
The Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter what the Israelis saw as an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel. The Six-Day War was initiated by General Moshe Dayan, the Israeli’s Defence Minister. -
The Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948, which is known know as the Marshall Plan. It was named after the Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the US provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
NATO
The expansion of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe and the threats against Greece and Turkey aroused growing alarm throughout Western Europe. accordance with the United Nations, nations established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to coordinate the military defenses of member nations against possible Soviet aggression. Esienhowoer was elected Supreme Commander of NATO military forces with command of 50 combat divisions. -
Berlin Airlift
lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
Korean War
conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. In 1948 rival governments were established: The Republic of Korea was proclaimed in the South and the People's Democratic Republic of Korea in the North -
The Polio Vaccine
Dr. Jonas Salk began to study the Poliovirus. infectious, before using them in a vaccine. In 1952, Salk was the first to develop a successful vaccine using a mixture of the three types of virus, grown in monkey kidney cultures. He developed a process using formalin, a chemical that inactivated the whole virus. -
Castro’s Cuban Revolution
Cuba's revolution has its origins in the struggle against Spanish colonialism,got wrose in the second half of the 19th century. An uprising in 1895 sealed the fate of Spanish colonialism, but victory was snatched from the people by a US expeditionary force in 1898. -
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. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
NASA Established
NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, they were established during the United States’ space race with the Soviet Union. it was during when the Soviet launched Sputnik 7. NASA is a nonmilitary agency, so soon after it was formed the Army, Navy, and Air Force were all fighting to be in charge of a manned space program. -
Bay of Pigs
was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 in April 1961. -
Building the Berlin Wall
On 12 August 1961, the GDR Council of Ministers announced that “in order to put a stop to the hostile activity of West Germany’s and West Berlin’s revanchist and militaristic forces, border controls of the kind generally found in every sovereign state will be set up at the border of the German Democratic Republic, including the border to the western sectors of Greater Berlin.” -
Truman Doctrine
On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece
