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A doctrine that established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. It blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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A war between North and South Korea, after North Korea crossed the 38th parallel.
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The small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands was blown up due to testing hydrogen bombs for the first time. The explosion, nicknamed the "Mike Shot", was very successful.
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Communist leader, Joseph Stalin died.
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It was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The United States joined to prevent the spread of communism. https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history
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10 Israeli brigades invaded Egypt and advanced toward the canal, routing Egyptian forces.
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Britain's first hydrogen bomb test was a technological failure.
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The invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
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It happened while riding in a motorcade in Dallas during a campaign visit. Kennedy’s motorcade was turning past the Texas School Book Depository at Dealey Plaza with crowds lining the streets. That is when shots rang out. The driver of the president’s Lincoln limousine, with its top off, raced to nearby Parkland Memorial Hospital, but after being shot in the neck and head, Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1 p.m.
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Was a conflict where insurgent groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, fighting mostly in the Afghan Countryside.
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President Reagan was in China for a diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Li Xiannian.
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A pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.
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The governments of the United States and the Soviet Union announced the end of the Cold War