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Vowed to provide aid to support "free people who are resisting outside pressure." By 1950, the U.S. had given Turkey and Greece $400 million in aid.
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The Cold War developed in the begining of the late 40's. It was a conflict between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
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George Marshall proposed a U.S. aid package tp Eurpean nations. Weatern Europe accepted while Eastern Europe rejected the aid.
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A defensive allience to stop the spread of communism. The first peacetime military allience which maintained more than 500,000 troops.
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Caused by Domino Theory and containment policy. Called the “Forgotten War” because it comes in between WWII and Vietnam.
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The worlds irst artifical satellite. Sputnik traveled around the earth at 18,000 miles an hour.
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The launch of Sputnik lead to the Space Race. Increased spending in education, especially in math and science.
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Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly train Cuban exiles for an invasion of Cuba. It turned out to be a disastter when in April, 1961, 1,200 Cuban exiles met 25,000 Cuban troops backed by Soviet tanks and were soundly defeated.
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During the summer of 1962 the flow of Soviet weapons into Cuba, including nuclear, increased. Kennedy made it clear that the U.S. would not tolerate offensive nuclear weapons in cuba.
