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Containing communism at all costs.
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Provided economic aid to European countries trying to recover after world War ii.
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Process of transporting needed supplies to East Berlin.
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Military alliance of 1949 between North American and Western European nations that pledges each will come to the aid of each other if attacked by an outside enemy
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A conflict that lasted from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by United Nations forces consisting primarily of U.S. troops.
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a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
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Russian satellite that initiated the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
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Established in 1957 as a direct response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1
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an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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The wall was a device to seperate the two sides of Berlin, the Eastern and Western. The wall was began on the 12th and 13th, but didn't officially began till the 17th.
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Began when the Soviet Union placed missiles within range of the United States and ended as the Soviet Union was forced to remove the missiles against the wishes of Fidel Castro
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a war fought in the Middle East in June 1967, lasting six days. In it Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, occupying the Gaza Strip, the Sinai, Jerusalem, the West Bank of the Jordan, and the Golan Heights
