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The Red Scare was a period of time when the United States was in great fear of the spread of communism into the US. During this time the president was Harry S. Truman.
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During the red scare there was the practice ofaccusing people of being communists without proper evidence, this became known as McCarthyism.This was named based on senator Joseph McCarthy and his actions during the red scare.
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The United Nations were formed as a means to increase cooperation politically and economically between member countries. The UN was formed by president Roosevelt between the Soviet Union, US, and Britain .
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The Truman Doctrine was created in order to provide, political, economical, and financial aid to democratic countries under threat from other forces and supported the US. This doctrine was created by Harry S. Truman
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This plan was made to aid western European countries with reconstruction with $13 billion. Turkey and Greece were aided with military. This plan was formed under the presidency of Harry Truman.
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NATO, the North atlantic trade organization was formed in order to form an alliance between Europe and America in order to build international ties.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance.
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Cuban exiles formed a group and invaded cuba in an effort to overthrow fidel castro
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
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President John F. Kennedy was riding in his limo when he was sot in the arm ad ten the head and killed. Vice president Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into office shortly after and also shot at.
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The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict.
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Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989. On November 9, 1989, thousands of jubilant Germans brought down the most visible symbol of division at the heart of Europe,the Berlin Wall. By 1990, the former communist leaders were out of power, free elections were held, and Germany was whole again
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The Persian gulf war was a response to the annexation and invasion of kuait.
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On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. , Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement was an agreement between Canada.mexico, and the US to create a trade triangle between them.
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On September 11, 2001 a group of terrorists hijacked three planes in n effort to destroy the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. All tree succeded and the twin towers were destroyed. The pentagon had sustained massive damage.
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The Afghanistan war started in 2001 between the US and Afghanistan The war wa intended to bring down the terrorist organization known as al-Qaida, and their leader Osama bin laden. The war carried on until 2014 when the navy seals team 6 shot and killed Osama.
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The Iraq war wa an effort to eliminate Saddam Hussein from Iraq.Th attacks were from 2003 till 2011
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