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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Alliance of 12 democratic countries an attack on one was an attack on all -
Invasion of South Korea
communist north Korea invaded and took almost the entire south until the united states rushed to the souths aid and pushed them back -
Brinkmanship Eisenhower
this policy was used by Eisenhower during his administration to go to the brink of war and stay there with the threat of massive retaliation -
Armistice Korean War
ended hostilities between south and north Korea and let the United States get out of war and get all the U.S soldiers that were taken, prisoner back home -
New look policy
In order to contain defense costs, the New Look brought about a shift in emphasis from conventional military capability to "air-atomic" capability in the form of the Strategic Air Command. so they used nuclear weapons as a deterrent to cut cost of military action. -
Geneva conference
Vietnam was divided into north and south and north for a two year period until they had an election to unite the country the United States would not accept this conclusion as the north communist leader was too popular so they established an anti-communist goverment in the south and gave finacial and military assistance -
Vietnam War
The U.S involvement in the vietnam war was to try and contaion the spread of communism -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy activated by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East". Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression especially from any nation controlled by international communism -
Creation of Nasa
was created After the Soviet launch of the world's first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) on October 4, 1957 -
Flexible response policy
defense strategy implemented by John F. Kennedy because the threat of massive retaliation didnt matter anymore -
Bay of pigs
Castro took over Cuba and made it a communist country so the president JFK tries to overthrow him with the CIA supplying rebels weapons but it fails badly all the rebels are killed and he looks foolish -
Cuban Missle Crisis
confrontation with the soviet union over the presence of missile sites in Cuba this went into a lot of threats and the whole world held its breath as this super powers went to the edge of war the crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty. -
Gulf of Tonkin
a few U.S ships were attacked by north korea so the president went to congress and passed a law to give him all authority to repel U.S attack force -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The United States had aircraft's bomb strategic locations in north Vietnam as a part of there campaign to take the north out and eliminate communism in vietnam -
Strategic Arms Limitations
United states started talks with the soviet union to limit the arms race for long-range ballistic missles armed with nuclear capabilitys
