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HUAC
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) , this was an investigate commited od The United States House Of Represantativies. These produced alot of dramatic but questionable revelations about Communists infiltrating American institutions and subversive actions by well-known citizens. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman appeared before a joint session of Congress to make his case.A dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress . This was The official declaration of the Civil War. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948 && became known as the Marshall Plan, George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. Nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. -
NATO
NATO) is established by 12 Western nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. Germany later goined (NATO). Also three years later after the cold war ended Nato had engaged its first militaty actions. -
Space Race
Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for competition. This happened After World War II in the mid-20th century,n 1959, the Soviet space program took another step forward in the launch of Luna 2, the first space probe to hit the moon. On April 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth. -
Korean War
Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea setting off the Korean War. They fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years.The Korean War was the first "hot" war of the Cold War. Over 55,000 American troops were killed in the conflict.
