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Alger Hiss
-became a center of a national controversy over communist infiltration in the United States government under president Harvy S. Turman in the 1940's and 1950's- 1904- 1996
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Cold War Timespan
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Marchall Plan
-encouraged European nations to work together for econimic recovery after World War ll -in june 1947, the United States agreed to administer aid to Europe if the countires would meet to decide what they needed -1939-1945 -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
-A military alience consisting of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and more then 20 other countrys -NATO seeks to protects the freedom and security of its members countires through political and military efforts -
U-2 spy plane
-shot down in the U.S.S.R. in may 1960- the soviet union captured the oilots, francis cary power, who confessed he was a spy
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Korean War
- The first was in which a world organization, the United Nations(UN), Played a miltary role,
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Warsaw Pact
-treaty that held most eastern European nations in a military command under tight soviet control. -Albania, Bulgaria, Czechosiovakia, EastGermany, Hungary, Poland, Romania,Soviet union signed the treaty -
Viwtman War
-the longest war in which the united states took part
-a small country in southeast asia, was divived at the time into the communist democratic republic of vietnam, commonly called North vietnam, and the noncommunist republic of vietnamese
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Bay of Pigs
-1,500 cubans exiles, organized and financed the U.S CIA, to topple the revolutionary regime of fidel castro in cuba. -President Dwight D.
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Chinese Revolution
-Political Power -tens of thousands of younge chinese became red guards -
1st man on the moon
-Neil Armstrong -Armstrong and buss alrin landed the Apollo ll lunar module egale on the moon.
