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Servicemen's Readjustment Act
A greater percentage of Vietnam veterans used G.I. Bill education benefits than World War II veterans Provided different types of loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses -
Truman Doctrine
It stated that the US would help any country that was unable to defend themselves from Soviet power.
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Marshall Plan is created
The U.S. would give money to help rebuild countries after the war, as long as they would create a Capitalistic Government . -
Berlin Airlift
The significance of the Berlin Airlift was that it showed the Soviet Union that the western Allies would not abandon the citizens of West Berlin and were prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to maintain their independence. -
The Korean War
- Political division of Korea
- North established a communist government, while the South established a capitalist one.
- 38th Parallel
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I Love Lucy premieres
The show was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience, and won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the allied commander for Europe during world war II. later, he was elected president of the united states. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviets replied with the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe -
Polio Vaccine
An oral vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin using attenuated poliovirus.
The end to suffering -
House Un-American Activities Committee meets
people lives were affected by the hearings
a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro assumes power after the Cuban Revolution
The U.S. terminates diplomatic relations -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO'S initial purpose was because Britain, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands needed to come together against the Soviet Union and socialism.