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House Un-American Activities Committee formed.
To investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizends,public employees and those organizations suspected of having cummunist ties. -
1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill,and Stalin.
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Organization to promote peace
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President Truman's promise to help nations that are struggling against cummunist movements.
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Foreign policy that offered economic aid to western European countries after World War ll.
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Program in which U.S and British pilots flew suppleis to West Berlinduring a Soviet blockade.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion. -
An ecentric period where General McCarthy was deemed hero by the american public and in turn support him in his everything
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Armistice agreement was signed July 27 1953
U.S had over 54,000 dead and 103,000 wounded
Chinese and Korean were 10 times higher each. -
Found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets, the Rosenbergs were the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage.
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A agreement signed by North and South Korea to end the war.
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Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
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Worlds first artficial satellite.
58 cm 22.8 inches in diameter
weighed 83.6 kg
183.9 pounds
Took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. -
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. He is a Russian cosmonaut. He made a 108 minute orbit in space on the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
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Alan B. Shepard Jr. was the first american in space. He made a 15 minutes orbit in the Freedom 7 capsule.
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Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. He was on the Appollo 11 along with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
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To create a dividing line throughout west berlin and east berlin, not only granting greater control for the soviets, but also making a seige ever more possible as a battle plan against the east berlin side
