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It was created to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities.
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A document stating that Truman made a promise to help nations struggling agaisnt communist movements.
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Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II
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Program in which British and U.S. pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
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(N.A.T.O. = North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion.
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Joseph McCarthy, a senator from Wisconsin made a speech saying he had a list of over 200 people in the State Department that were Communists.
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Conflict between Communist and Non-Communist forces in Korea.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's was executed for being found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets.
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Was the first artificial satellite to successfully orbit the Earth.
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War between northern & southern Vietnam.
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An unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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It was Alan B. Shepard Jr.
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A concrete barrier built by the German Democratic Republic.
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Conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
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The first astronaut that landed was Neil Armstrong.