THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER AND THE COLD WAR
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the Peace Corps
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Hands Across America
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Doctors without Borders
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the Green Berets
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Peace Corps Today To help the people of interested countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained workers. To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. To help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -A hallmark of the Kennedy administration, the Peace Corps sent American citizens to developing countries to volunteer in the struggle against poverty, illiteracy, and disease.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kennedy issues Executive Order #10924, establishing the Peace Corps as a new agency within the Department of State. The same day, he sent a message to Congress asking for permanent funding for the agency, which would send trained American men and women to foreign nations to assist in development efforts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Its website proclaims that the first group of Peace Corps volunteers is Ghana in fact, the first Peace Corps volunteers were, and are, the members of a group known as Colombia I.