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Truman
Fair Deal-national health care, aimed to help common person, most didn't get passed
Atomic Bomb
Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan
Assassination attempt, Puerto Rican independence
desegregated the military
fired MacArthur
Potsdam-surrender or "deadly weapon" will be used
transition from wartine economy to peacetime economy
UN set up
created CIA and National Security Council
recognized Israel as a country
got involved in Vietnam, gave aid to France
Berlin Airlift
NATO
McCarthyism
Chinese Civil War
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