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President Truman announces the Truman Doctrine, informing Congress, "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." -
The USSR attempted to gain control of the entire city by cutting off all surface traffic to West Berlin. The United States responded with a daily airlift of food and supplies into the besieged city. -
John F. Kennedy, the president of the United States Of America is assassinated while campaigning in Dallas, Texas