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Intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Directors, producers, and writers who had refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) would be fired or suspended. -
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. -
It's an intergovernmental military alliance between 31 member states – 29 European and two North American. -
Fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. -
20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. -
Fidel Castro wanted two air strikes in Cuba to get Fulgencio Batista to stop dictating to people and things. The 1st air strike happened April 15, 1961 and they painted there planes to look like cuban planes the 2nd air strike happened in the next 24hr of the 1st one and 20,000 troops went towards the beach. -
East Germany built a barrier to close off East Germans' access to West Berlin and hence West Germany -
3,500 United States Marines came ashore at Da Nang as the first wave of U.S. combat troops into South Vietnam, adding to the 25,000 U.S. military advisers already in place. -
Protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. -
During the Peaceful Revolution the Soviet Union started to allow people to go through to the other side of wall to see their families.