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It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12 and further devloped on July 12, when he pleged to to contain threats to Greece and Turkey.
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Gave $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey
To fend off communism and stay free
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European Recovery Plan
16 countries received aid
$13 billion in aid given to rebuild the Soviet Union and Western Europe
Offered to Eastern Europe, Soviet Union said NO!
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1947-1991
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Stalin cut off supplies into West Berlin
The U.S airlift food and supplies into the city
Lasted 11 months
Stalin re-opened supply lines.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Collective security
Alliance to support one another militarily
Had to be a democracy
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The 38th parallel is the sepaeration of North Korea and South Korea, after the war ended in a stalemate.
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From 1950-1953
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South East Asian Treaty Organization
The U.S plus 7 other nations
To prevent the domino theory
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Ho Chi Minh was a communist leader of North Vietnam, and he was fighting againt the South Vietnamese Army to win the land of Vietnam
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1955-1975
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Like Truman Doctrine but for the middle east
Offered economic and military support if communism threatened the middle eat
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The Soviet Union Launches a female dog into space on Sputnik II. They were the first to launch into space, further starting the space race.
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The Army Republic of Vietnam. This was also known as the South Vietnamese Army
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This wall separated East and West Berlin, cutting off all trade and travel routes out of East Berlin. Outrage from the separated places began to tear down the wall
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Agent Orange is a herbicide mixture made by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. This toxic chemilcal killed many.
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The U.S. attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. They "attacked" the gulf of tonkin which initianted the vietnam war, but may have been a hoax.
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Americal division's 11th infrantry arrived in the hamlet of MY Lai in the Nothern part of south vietnam. They were on a search and destroy mission
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While the cold war was happeneong, many events still went on. The United States finally reached the moon, and we were the first to do so.
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Before the Vietnam war, the U.S had a draft where a bunch of young men's names were placed into a big lottery thing, and names were pulled.
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The soviet union finally fell after the west had victory. In 1991 in turned into Russia, and communisom no longer reigned there.
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Bors Yeltsin as the new president of newly founded Russia
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The Soviet formed an alliace with its satalite nations to contridict NATO
