ary veterans. The Bill was funding the college education of over half of all male college students by three years later, and is still in effect today for veterans. The Bill also funded low-interest mortgages for veterans buying houses, as well as business loans for those starting businesses.
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939 between Stalin and Hitler was an agreement to avoid hostilities between the two nations. However, Hitler two weeks later invaded Poland, followed by russia, the two nations splitting up Poland and ensuring the outbreak of the world war.
The containment doctrine of the Truman administration was an effort to keep communism contained within the Soviet Union as the Cold War began after World War II. This doctrine combined military, economic and diplomatic efforts to prevent Soviet communism from encroaching in the Third World and to position the United States as the dominant force in world affairs.
The National Security Council issued a report in 1950 (NSC-68) analyzing the global strategic needs of the United States in the face of a growing perceived Soviet threat, especially related to the Soviet atomic capability, and recommending a massive military expansion which played a big role in escalating the Cold War.
The Truman Doctrine of 1947 was a solidification of Cold War policy announced in a speech aimed at the crises in Greece and Turkey and laying out what Truman saw as the anti-communist policy needed for a world increasingly divided between the free and the non-free. Truman urged support for financial and other aid to nations seeking to stay out of the totalitarian hold of the Soviet Union.
Ho Chi Minh was the communist leader of the nationalist Vietminh movement, which later became the Viet Cong, who oversaw the military and political victory of his people over the Japanese, the French and the Americans from the 1940s through the 1970s. He is today a heroic symbol for any people wi...