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Castro's Cuban Revolution
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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a poicy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech on arch 12, 1947 stating that to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. Historians often consider it as the start of the Cold War, and the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion. -
The Marshall Plan
A massive program of aid from the United States to sixteen western and southern European countries aimed at helping economic renewal and strengthening democracy; it was started in 1948 and was officaially known as the European Recovery program, or ERP but is more commonly known as the Marshall Plan, after the man who announced it, US Secreatary of State George C. Marshall -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was when the US would send a cargo ship with supplies over the wes side of the Berlin wall with a C-47 because people there were cut off to the world. -
NATO
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Korean War
Is when North Korea invaded South Korea with the intention in turning South Korea into communist rule. -
The Polio Vaccine
is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus that invasdes the nervous system. The symptoms are stiffness in the muscles. -
Sputnik
The first satellite created by the Soviet Union to go up into space. -
NASA Established
It was the National Aeronautics and Space Adminstaration,was estalished during the United states space race with the Soviet Union -
Bay of Pigs
Known in Hispanic America as La BAtalla de Giron, was an unsucessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
Building the Berlin Wall
Was built to keep one side on that side and the other on the other side because one side was communist and other side was non-communist. It also seperated alot of families -
6-day war
Israel and neighboring states Egypt, Jordan, and Syria fought for 6-days (Israel bombed launching a surprise bombing against Egypt air fields)