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promoted the policy of containment, which is to stop communism
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U.S. gave massive foreign aid to rebuild Western European economies to prevent communism.
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An alliance of countries from North America and Western Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed
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U.S. troops helped Southern Koreans fight back against North Korea in order to prevent Communism, but later realized that the conflict was coming to a stalemate. By the end of the war, U.S. pulled out their troops while Korea ends up remaining divided.
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The policy of McCarthyism, which acusing someone with false actusations of being communist
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President Kennedy tried to overthrow Castro and the Communists in Cuba by planning a surprise attack on Cuba. The CIA trained the Cubans to overthrow Castro and his communists. Castro eventually finds out and prepare a counter-strike which was sucessful. 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. The mission was later declared insucessful
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the name given to two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin
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Four Kent State University students were killed and nine injured when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire during a demonstration protesting the Vietnam War.
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