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n 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States at Dumbarton Oaks, United States in August-October 1944.
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(1947): U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
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President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe
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The Berlin blockade was the closure of the borders that the United Kingdom and the United States shared with the Soviet Union in occupied German territory, and that took place between June 24, 1948 and May 12, 1949
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance governed by the North Atlantic Treaty or Washington Treaty, signed on April 4, 1949
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance governed by the North Atlantic Treaty or Washington Treaty, signed on April 4, 1949
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In 1951, Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. They were executed in 1953. Their trial remains controversial today.
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1952—63 years ago this week—the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion. Operation Ivy was conducted on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
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the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first.