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Harry Truman
President Truman became president surprisingly after FDR's sudden and untimely death. He also created the Truman doctrine. -
United Nations
The UN was created shortly after WW2 ended. The association helped prevent future world conflicts while it had more power than the League of Nations -
Truman Doctrine
Created by President Truman, this document was created to specifically protect various democratic from threats. This was mostly used to prevent communism from spreading. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism are accusations made without any evidence. Joseph McCarthy accused so many people of treason without any proof that this was named after him. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a plan of the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe after World War II. This involved lending money and necessary resources. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance of European and North American democracies that helped further build relationships. This was the counter to Russia's Warsaw Pact. -
The Red Scare
The Red Scare was the nation's fear of communism which heightened extremely because of the Soviet Union. Many people were paranoid of each other and feared communism would spread too quickly. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was between the United Nations (Who were supported by the United States) and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The conflict started when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was an American politician and a very successful army general. He served in WWII as a vital general and later became the 34th President of the United States. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a deadly war between a communist North Vietnam and the US protected South Vietnam. The US slowly became heavily involved despite very little support from citizens. -
John F Kennedy
Kennedy was the 35th president of the US and was elected in a time filled with Cold War tensions with Russia. He was assassinated, however, in 1963. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion attempt into Cuba with trained Cuban exiles, they tried overthrowing the government but ended up being slaughtered. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile was the most tense and the closest that, not only the US, but the whole world would be rained down upon with nukes. USSR had put nukes in Cuba which caused the US to form a barricade around them. -
Kennedy's Assassination
The assassination was done by Lee Oswald. Oswald was later murdered by a citizen before facing trial. -
Lyndon B Johnson
Johnson was the 36th president of the US. After Kennedy's assassination he had to be sworn into office. -
Richard Nixon
Nixon was the 37th president of the US. He was very close to impeachment because of his Watergate Scandal. He resigned rather than being impeached in 1974 -
Ronald Reagan
Reagan was the 40th president of the US. His previous occupation was acting which he was known for. -
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush was the 41st president of the US. He later became a vice president as well as a director of the CIA. -
Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
Communism in Eastern Europe soon fell after the Berlin Wall fell in Germany. The symbolic wall fell and that inspired other eastern European countries. -
Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf war started when Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. The US joined to reassure that we would keep our oil supply. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The Berlin symbolized a halt in communism in 1989. The Soviet Union slowly fell apart and after it did, Russia was created. -
William Clinton
Bill Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States -
NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement was a deal between Mexico, USA, and Canada. This helped them trade with each other. -
George W. Bush
George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States. He was the first president to deal with major terrorist threats. -
9/11 attacks.
9/11 was the first terrorist threat since Pearl Harbor before WW2. Osama Bin Laden claimed responsibility for these attacks. -
War in Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan started after 9/11. Afghanistan was supposedly harboring terrorists. It ended in 2014. -
Iraq War
The Iraq War started after an escalated US mission to take down Saddam Hussein. The war ended in 2014
