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On this date Truman signs the Marshall Plan. It helps Europe recover from the war by sending money to 16 nations. As these countries improve, communism weakens.
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Soviets cut off electrical power and transportation to West Berlin to starve the Allies out of it.
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Alliance with US, Canada, and 10 other nations so that they would protect each other. If any one of them got attacked, it would mean an attack against them all
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When Stalin cut of power and trasportation to the West side of Berlin, The US started to have a airlift to give the west side the necessities like food and water.
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The Soviets test their atomic bomb, Joe 1, and it is a success. They are now a huge threat to the US
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Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the president of the United States.
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The Korean War was a proxy war, North vs South, 53,000 Americans were killed.
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Called for military cooperation among the soviet union, any of the listed nations attacked, others had to help defend them.
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Sputnik, the first ever satelite to be launched, was launched by the soviets
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John F. Kennedy becomes the president of the US.
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1400 Cuban exiles landed on a Cuban Beach, most were killed or captured .
