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The Iron Curtain was the boundary that separated Communist East Europe from Democratic West Europe.
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The post-WWII conference that took place between the Allies to divide up Europe.
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Gave $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey.
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$13 billion in aid given to rebuild Western Europe
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US airlifted food and supplies into West Berlin.
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N.A.T.O. is created to offset the Soviet influence in Eastern Europe.
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The Korean conflict begins and as a result United Nations police action begins to defend South Korea.
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The United Nations is created.
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An alliance formed to prevent the Domino Theory in Asia.
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The civil war between communist North Vietnam and the democratic South Vietnam.
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Offered economic and military support if communism threatened the Middle East.
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The United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to see who could reach space first and then eventually the moon.
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An American Navy ship was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese Navy gun boats.
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Nixon is elected President of the United States and promises to bring American troops home.
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Napalm was a gelatin-based chemical that was sprayed of NVA and Vietcong forces by US soldiers in an attempt to kill them.
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The surprise attack on South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong.
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The mass murder of 300 to 500 innocent South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers.
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NASA archives a lunar landing on the moon
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The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to NVA forces and was later renamed Ho Chi Minh city.
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The Soviet Union flag that flew over the Kremlin was lowered and replaced with the tri-color flag of the newly indepedent Russian state.
