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The Cold War was a conflict between the U.S. and the USSR. Even though they didn't fight each other directly, they had strong feelings of hate towards one another. The U.S. wanted to contain communism and the USSR wanted the U.S. to lessen their influence in Europe.http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/year-did-cold-war-begin_b7011c5ee9d9c360.jpg

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The Cold War Crash Course US History #37

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The Marshall Plan was led by Great Britain and the U.S.. The Marshall Plan was intended to provide financial aid to Europe to help them recover. The U.S. helped with the Marshall plan because it would help contain communism.

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The U.S. and Great Britain helped the people in the Berlin Wall get supplies. When the Berlin Wall was erected, it cut off all land transport. So the U.S. and Great Britain dropped the people supplies from planes.http://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Airlift1.jpg

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Berlin Airlift   The Story Of A Great Achievement 1949

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The U.S. didn't want North Korea, a communist country, to invade and take over South Korea. The U.S. sided with South Korea because we wanted to contain communism. The U.S. had a total of 23,300 casualties.https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/M26-Tank-Korean-War.jpg

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The Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be launched. The Sputnik was launched by the USSR. When the Sputnik was launched, it began the "Space Race".

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The Berlin wall was put up by the Soviets over night on the 13th of August. The wall was intended to keep Germans from Eastern Germany from fleeing to Berlin. The wall was torn down on November 9th, 1989.

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1. The year Cuba became a communist country was 1959 when Fidel Castro became leader.
2. On October 14th 1962, an American plane spotted Soviet ballistic missile installations in Cuba.
3. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba. It was led by the Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA.
4+5. The U.S. Navy blockaded Cuba to keeps the Soviets from transporting any more missiles to Cuba. When Soviet ships arrived at the blockade, they stopped short upon realizing the U.S. Navy had blockaded it.
6. The Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba, but only if the U.S. removed theirs from Turkey.http://en.granma.cu/file/img/2016/12/medium/f0015043.jpg https://timeglobalspin.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/001080.jpg?w=720 https://repeatingislands.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/bay-of-pigs.gif

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1. The U.S. became involved in the war in 1962. We sided with South Vietnam because we wanted to contain communism and North Vietnam was a communist country.
2. In 1964, torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers. This led to the beginning of Operation Rolling Thunder.
3. From 1965-1968, Operation Rolling Thunder was an American bombing campaign in Vietnam.
4. In 1968, the Tet Offensive was a series of violent attacks throughout South Vietnam.
5+6. The last U.S. troops to be taken out of Vietnam was in 1973. South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam in 1975.https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AP_18027179650370-840x420.jpg http://vietnamthewar.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/6/2/29626979/7412913_orig.jpg https://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2017/09/1046516_1_09-11vwar_standard.jpg?alias=standard_900x600nc

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1. In 1989, Poland held its first legislative election making it a non-communist country.
2. In 1989, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania also became non-communist countries.
3. The Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989.
4. The Soviet Union finally dissolved in 1991.http://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/14234951321511.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/474x/27/db/b6/27dbb6307136e69638b288abe4d173fb--berlin-wall-us-history.jpg

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1. From 1946-1964, the Baby Boom took place. The Baby Boom was a time period where 78.3 million babies were born.
2. McCarthyism was a campaign against communists that was held in 1950.
3. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
4. Richard Nixon resigned in 1973. This is because the Watergate Scandal escalated.
5. The Iran Hostage Crisis took place from 1979 to 1981. During this time period, 52 American diplomats and citizens were being held hostage.https://media.wired.com/photos/5a595516f11e325008172bcb/master/pass/BabyGlimpseBaby-640504936.jpg

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The first video game was a simple tennis game called pong. It later came out for the Atari gaming system, but in a different format.

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The Interstate Highway was built in 1956. It was also the largest engineering project in the world.https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/finalmap.jpg

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The Willy Jeep from WWII is manufactured for the public to use. They were manufactured and sold mostly from 1947-1965.https://s13252.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-06-at-10.38.21-AM-940x636.png

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The NES was invented in 1983 in Japan. It was sent to the U.S. in 1985 where American families are still enjoying them today.https://www.nintendo.com/images/page/nes-classic/nes-classic-edition.png

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Levittowns were being built all around the U.S. from 1947-1951. There are seven of these massive suburbs around the U.S..https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/LevittownPA.jpg