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Joseph McCarthy was a senator during the cold war. He thought that there was communist in America. Over five years he tried to uncover the people who were communist which started the red scare
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This was formed so that countries have alliance with one another and to stop a potential ww3
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Joseph McCarthy was a senate who would call people communists without actually knowing that they are communists. When the tried to find proof they found none and he was relieved
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The Truman Doctrine was when Harry Truman would help all democracy countries. He would send Military, Political and economic help so they would not get taken over by the Soviet. Containment was when the U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism throughout the world.
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also known as the European Recovery Program.The plan raised 13 billion dollars to help the Europian .The marshall plan successfully helped the European gain trust with their wealth in the future.
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The CIA was formed to gather information from other countries. Most likely created at this time to keep an eye on Russia.
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The Berlin airlift is when Berlin put a fence around the west part so no one could leave and get what they needed. The US, Britain and France helo the west Berlin people by sending supplies. The way they sent the supplies was by sending airplanes and dropping all the supplies to the people. Berlin wanted America and their allies to start a war but they never did and Berlin took the fence down after a year.
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The Korean War was a war between communists North Korea and Democrats South Korea. When North Korea was pounding on South Korea; the United Nations took action and helped out the South Koreans. They never signed a peace treaty so technically they are still at war.
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Hawks are people who are advanced in military power and are very aggressive. The doves are people that try to resolve the conflicts between international conflicts without any threats. Anybody could be on either side of you don't have to believe in any type.
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The race is on between Russia and the United States. The Russians had the first man in space, but U.S. had the frist man on the moon. So America won that race.
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The Russian Communists launched a spacecraft called sputnik. It lasted for only 22 days until it ran out of feul.
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Vietnam was a long tough war having to do with communism vs. anti-communism. Many people thought drafting for that war was unnecissary and many people critisized it.
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the bay of pigs is when America tried to contain communism by trying to take over Fidel Castro. He was a prime minister of cuba and was a communist. Cuba got missiles from Russia so the US started to back off of Cuba.
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The iron curtian was a wall that was dividing europe into two sides. One side was communist and the other was non communists
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The Russians threatened to bomb the east coast of U.S. from cuba, but JfK solved the problem using is brains and negotiating skills.
