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President Harry S. Truman wrote this and he did too establish that the United States would provide help to countries that help being, political, economic, and military. -
President Truman signed the economic plan Recovery act of 1948 which later became known as the Marshall Plan, this plan provided markets for American Goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in Western Europe. -
This event happened when Soviet forces blockaded, rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States, and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. -
NATO also known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by United States, Canada, and several Western European nations. This provided collective security against the Soviet Union This was the first peacetime military alliance the U.S. entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
This war started when the Northern Korean people's army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at the 38th parallel, ( a line of latitude that divides the non-communist Republic and the communist party of North and South Korea). -
The war ended because President Eisenhower start as the 34th President of the U.S. an armistice (agreement to stop fighting) which resulted in the organized combat operations ending and the Korean Peninsula remained divided by the 38th parallel as it was previously. -
Previously known as the 'Treaty of Friendship', Co-Operation and Mutual Assistance, the Warsaw Pact was created immediately after the accession of West Germany to the Alliance. -
This Doctrine was established by Eisenhower himself and was a message to the Middle Eastern Countries that if they need U.S economic and aid assistance that the U.S. Military would help them if that Country is being threatened by armed aggression -
When the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, the worlds first satellite was the size of a beach ball, and was 183 pounds and took about 98 minutes to Orbit the Earth, (on its elliptical path). This was an important event because during this time period the U.S. and the USSR were in a race to see who could accomplish this scientific advancement first. -
This incident was caused because a U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense forces while also conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.