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Alliance of 12 democratic countries an attack on one was an attack on all
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communist north Korea invaded and took almost the entire south until the united states rushed to the souths aid and pushed them back
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this policy was used by Eisenhower during his administration to go to the brink of war and stay there with the threat of massive retaliation
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ended hostilities between south and north Korea and let the United States get out of war and get all the U.S soldiers that were taken, prisoner back home
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In order to contain defense costs, the New Look brought about a shift in emphasis from conventional military capability to "air-atomic" capability in the form of the Strategic Air Command. so they used nuclear weapons as a deterrent to cut cost of military action.
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Vietnam was divided into north and south and north for a two year period until they had an election to unite the country the United States would not accept this conclusion as the north communist leader was too popular so they established an anti-communist goverment in the south and gave finacial and military assistance
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The U.S involvement in the vietnam war was to try and contaion the spread of communism
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The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy activated by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East". Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression especially from any nation controlled by international communism
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was created After the Soviet launch of the world's first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) on October 4, 1957
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defense strategy implemented by John F. Kennedy because the threat of massive retaliation didnt matter anymore
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Castro took over Cuba and made it a communist country so the president JFK tries to overthrow him with the CIA supplying rebels weapons but it fails badly all the rebels are killed and he looks foolish
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confrontation with the soviet union over the presence of missile sites in Cuba this went into a lot of threats and the whole world held its breath as this super powers went to the edge of war the crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty.
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a few U.S ships were attacked by north korea so the president went to congress and passed a law to give him all authority to repel U.S attack force
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The United States had aircraft's bomb strategic locations in north Vietnam as a part of there campaign to take the north out and eliminate communism in vietnam
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United states started talks with the soviet union to limit the arms race for long-range ballistic missles armed with nuclear capabilitys
