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An international organization was formed in order to prevent future wars. The charter was approved by the senate by a vote of 89 to 2. -
President Harry Truman presented this before a joint session of congress. It asked congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece -
It was started as an American initiative to provide foreign aid to western Europe. The US transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs after the end of WWII. -
NATO was formed in order to create collective security against the Soviet Union. It was the first peacetime military alliance the US joined in the eastern hemisphere. -
Documentary film where each of the Hollywood 10 made a speech against McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
The first military action of the Cold War. It started when North Korea invaded South Korea with 75,000 people.
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Earth's first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union. -
A failed landing operation in the southwest coast of Cuba by those who opposed Fidel Castro's revolution.
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A wall was built to separate East Berlin from West Berlin. It was put up after a decree was passed the day before. -
3,500 U.S marines visited Da Nang as the first wave of U.S troops into South Vietnam -
The Soviet Union said they invaded Afghanistan in order to uphold the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty
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The wall was brought down five days after a mass protest of half a million people marched against it