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a massive operation where the U.S., UK, and France supplied West Berlin with food, fuel, and necessities via cargo planes after the Soviets blockaded all land and water routes to the city, isolating it within Soviet-controlled East Germany -
a series of 131 military tribunals held by the Allied forces in Nuremberg, Germany, to prosecute prominent Nazi leaders for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity during WWII -
presidential election was one of the greatest upsets in American history, where Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey despite polls and pundits widely predicting a Dewey victory. Truman won 303 electoral votes to Dewey's 189 by campaigning on a "whistle-stop" tour, rallying the New Deal coalition, and criticizing the "do-nothing" Republican Congress. -
established on April 4, 1949, in Washington, D.C., as a mutual defense alliance to safeguard postwar Western security against Soviet aggression -
a, ideological struggle for power between the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/KMT) led by Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led by Mao Zedong -
a Cold War conflict where communist North Korea, backed by the Soviet Union and China, invaded South Korea, supported by the U.S. and a United Nations (UN) coalition, to unify the peninsula under communist rule -
a landmark Cold War espionage case where the New York couple was convicted of conspiring to pass atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union -
The 1952 presidential election was a landslide victory for Republican war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower (55.1% of the popular vote), who defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson II. Promising to end the Korean War and fight corruption, Eisenhower broke the Democratic "Solid South" and ended 20 years of Democratic control. His running mate was Richard Nixon. -
The 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings were 36 days of televised Senate investigations into conflicting charges between Senator Joseph McCarthy and the U.S. Army. McCarthy accused the Army of harboring communists, while the Army accused him of seeking preferential treatment for an aide. The chaotic hearings exposed McCarthy's bullying tactics, leading to his downfall. -
a major Cold War conflict triggered when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the British-French-owned Suez Canal Company