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Announced on August 15, signed on September 2.
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President Henry S. Truman announced that USA will give political, military, and economic assistance to democratic countries that are being threatened by another force (Communism).
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This was an initialive to help European countries after World War II, with the United States sending $13 billion dollars to repair war-ridden countries in Europe.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (all members of this organization will assist each other when a war breaks out).
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A theory in the early 1950's that stated that if one country were to become communist, then all the countries around it will too in a domino effect.
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Warsaw Pact was a NATO-like pact that was a defense treaty amongst the communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the Cold War.
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The first satellite launched into space. It was launched by the Soviet Union.
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Yuri Gagarin, hailing from the Soviet Union, was the first man to go to space.
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The failed American invasion of Cuba.
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The Berlin Wall was the wall that divided East and West Berlin from 1961-1989.
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A meeting between America and the Soviet Union discussing the Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. Was the closest the Cold War got to becoming nuclear.
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USA sends a spacecraft to the moon and wins the Space Race against the USSR.
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Translation: openness and restructuring. Gorbachev introduced big changes economically and internationally.
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Signified a start of German Unification and the start of the end of the Cold War.
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