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Formed to provide security against the threat of the Soviet Union.
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, and develop friendly relations among nations
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Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again.
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U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
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A program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.
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The united states was blocked off from delivering supplies to their side of berlin, so they dropped a lot of supplies from the sky
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Civil war in korea, communist soviets back one side, capitalism the other, then split at the 38th parallel.
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A couple of spies got caught giving the soviets atomic bomb details
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The us dropped and tested the H bomb which was 1000 more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine and saves the world
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The USSR launches the satellite "sputnik" into space
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On the edge of nuclear war the Soviets had nuclear missiles armed and in the proximity of the United States while we surrounded Cuba.
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Begins undeclared war in vietnam
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Medicaid programs designed to provide health coverage for low-income people.
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Coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on American outpost in South Vietnam
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Defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
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4 student protestors killed by the army for protesting on campus
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Leaked government documents exposed Vietnam secrets
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Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
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law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval
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President Nixon got caught sneaking guards into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building
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south Vietnam loses and their capital is taken by north Vietnamese and Vietcong
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Secret negotiations going on at presidential retreat at camp david
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Nuclear plant meltdown in Pennsylvania that raised caution to nuclear power
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Iran Terrorist capture citizens at us embassy in response to situation with wanted prime minister
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Secret arms deal between USA and Iran. In response to arms embargo
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