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An international organization founded after WWII by 51 countries committed to maintaining peace and security.
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An American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
An American initiative enacted to provide foreign aid to Western Europe economies at the end of WWII. -
A short documentary film where each member made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism. -
An intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. -
The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
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A fight between the United States and Soviet Union to get to space first.
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A failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba.
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A wall built to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west. -
U.S. Marines land on beaches near Da Nang, South Vietnam as the first American combat troops to enter Vietnam. -
A nine-year guerilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army.
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The spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at Midnight that day, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the countries borders.