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HUAC formed
HUAC is formed to keep track of people who were thought to be a threat to the nation -
U.N formation
organized to promote world peace -
Yalta conference
Strategy meeting between Roosevelt Stalin and Churchhill -
Potsdam Conference
meeting of United states, Britain, and Soviet Unioon at the end of world war 2 -
Truman Doctrine
President Trumans promise to help struggling nations against communism -
Marshall Plan
foreign policy that offered economic aid to western european countries ofter world war 2 -
Berlin airlift
program where U.S and British pilots flew in supplies to west berlin during soviet blockade -
NATO formation
U.S, U.K, France, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg joined the North atlantic treaty organization to avoid attack -
Era of McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S senator that was trying to claim many people were communist -
North korean invades south korea
north korea invades south korea on june 25 1950 -
Rosenberg execution
Rosenbergs are soviet spies that are sentenced to death for espionage -
armistice signed ending the korean war
americans south koreans and (communist) north koreans sign ceasefire -
Warsaw pact formation
military alliance of soviet Union and its satellite states Soviet Unions response to NATO -
sputnik 1 is launched
Soviet Union launches sattellite with a transmitter into orbit -
first man in space space
Soviet Union cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is first man in space -
First American in space
Alan T. Sheppard is the first American in space -
berlin wall is created
the berlin wall is created to keep east german residents from leaving -
first man on the moon
Apollo 11 lands on the moon neil armstrong is the first man on the moon
