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House Un-american Activities committee formed
investigate domestic radicals including Nazis -
United nations formation
voted to assist South Korea in maintaining their independence. -
Yalta Conference
Plans are made in Yalta and finalized in Potsdam -
Postdam Conference
Stalin refuses free elections at Potsdam -
truman doctorine
offers aid and food to Greece and Turkey so they can resist communism. -
Marshall Plan
opens that aid to other European countries. -
berlin airlift
brings food and supplies to people trapped in Berlin after Stalin blockades to city- hoping to starve them into submission -
NATO Formation
a military alliance joining nations of Western Europe and North America. -
Era of McCartheism begins
uring the early years of the Cold War, the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism swept through American society -
North Korea invasion of South Karea
North Karea invades South Karea -
Rosenburg Execution
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's historic execution -
Armistice Signed Ending of Korean War
A ceasefire stopped the fighting -
Warsaw Pact Formation
was formed by the Soviet Union and its satellites in respose to NATO. -
Sputnik 1 launched
Satellite was first to leave Earth’s atmosphere. -
First man in space
Yugi was first in space. -
first american in space
Alan sheperd becomes first american to go into space -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
the berlin wall was created -
First man on moon
Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the moon