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The Cold War Begins. Printer Friendly. I. Postwar Economic Anxieties. The Americans cheered the end of World War II in 1945,
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The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, Truman Doctrine of containment was a United States policy to stop Soviet the Marshall Plan and military containment by the creation of NATO in 1949
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The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and
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After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the United States, the People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an end.
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The African-American Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end ...
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The successful launch of the unmanned satellite Sputnik I by the Soviet Union in October 1957 shocks and frightens many Americans.
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The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961
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The role of Cuban Missile Crisis in the history of the United States of ... That hand-picked group of 12 men would advise Kennedy throughout the unfolding crisis.
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Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces that 21,000 more U.S. troops are to be sent to Vietnam
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was to be a day to honor all mothers, and also a day to remember the work of peacemaking, reconciliation, and social action against poverty started
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President Nixon reached an agreement with North Vietnamese Comunisis the domino theroy proved unfounded
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In France's second city, Lyon, a workers' uprising known as the Canut revolt, .... Scenes of Parisian students and the poor, planning the rebellion upon the eve
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