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President Truman establishing that the US would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole.
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World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control (Ended May 12, 1949)
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Carry supplies to the people of West Berlin (End September 30, 1949)
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An intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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First military action of the cold war. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself (End- July 27, 1953)
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prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.
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a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to the fall of Saigon. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. (End- April 30, 1975)
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First artificial Earth satellite
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Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth
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a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group
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a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin
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a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
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Resolution- August 7, 1964
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the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle
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instituted in the Soviet Union to restructure Soviet economic and political policy. Seeking to bring the Soviet Union up to economic par with capitalist countries such as Germany, Japan, and the United States
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Glasnost” means “openness” and was the name for the social and political reforms to bestow more rights and freedoms upon the Soviet people.
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a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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