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Because they believed that Cuba was not ready for independence.
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A geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.
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Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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Truman's surprise victory was the fifth consecutive presidential win for the Democratic Party.
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When the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel,
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Five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools.
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Acampaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950-1954.
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The United States entered Vietnam with the purpose of preventing a communist takeover of the region.
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A struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
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Authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
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King was shot while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel. King was rushed to a hospital and died an hour later.
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Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.