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a vociferous campaign against alleged communist in the US government and other institutions carried put under senator joseph mccarthy in the period 1950-54
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was the 34th president of the united states from 1953 until 1961. he was a five star general in the united states army during world war II
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were americans citizens executed for con spicy to commit espionage relating to passing 1953
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a war also called the Korean conflict fought in the early 1950s between the united nations supported by the united states and the communist democratic peoples republic of korea north korea The war began in 1950 when north korea invaded south Korea
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commonly known as jack kennedy or by his initials jfk was an american politician who served as the 35th president of the united states from january 1961 until his assassination in november 1963
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a confront ion between the united states and the soviet union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in cuba one of the hottest periods of our time
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president harry s. truman established that the united states would provide political military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces
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was a american pilot whose central intelligence agency u 2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over soviet union
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or the south east asia resolution enacted august 10 1964 was a joint resolution that the united states congress passed on august 7 1964 in response tot he gulf of tonkin incident
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the us policy of withdrawing it troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of south
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was an american political and social activist who co founded the youth international party 1965
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was an american initiative to aid Europe and Asia,in which the united states gave 13 billion 1960
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often referred to as obj was the 36 president of the united states a position he assumed after his service as the 37 vice president
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the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries like a falling domino
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was an american medical researcher and virologist
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a military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into west berlin by air after the government of east germany
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was a united states policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the cold war this policy was a response to a series of moves by the soviet union
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also transliterated as mao tse-tung and commonly referred to as chairman mao was a chinese communist revolutionary and the founding after of the people republic of china which he governed
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a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare
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also known as the first war powers act was an american emergency law that increased federal power during world war II
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was the 37th president of the united states serving from 1969 to 1974
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he notional barrier separating the former soviet bloc and the west prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern europe 1989
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was former member of the united states army special forces and retired united states army master sergeant who reined the medal of honor
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was a cold war conflict pitting the u.s and the remnants of the french colonial government in south vietnam against the indigenous but communist vietnamese
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is a social movement usually in opposition to a particular nations decision to start or carry
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a domestic program in the administration of president lyndon b. johnson that instituted fe