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51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, and promoting social progress, better living standards, and human rights. -
The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
During the McCarthy Era, many movie industry people in Hollywood were called before the House to ""name names"" of Communists among their ranks. A group of actors, writers, and producers refused to cooperate and were known as the HOLLYWOOD 10. -
A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-to 1953, in which the United States along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans while China fought on the side of the North Koreans. -
It was intended to prevent the spread of Communism in the aftermath of World War II by providing U.S. support to countries thought to be targets of influence by the Soviet Union. -
CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro by landing 1200 disgruntled Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs. Fails miserably and is a huge embarrassment for Kennedy, who then vows to bring down Castro. Forces Cuba ever further into the arms of the USSR. -
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. -
resident Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder. The same month, U.S. Marines landed on beaches near Da Nang, South Vietnam as the first American combat troops to enter Vietnam -
competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II. -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal event in world history that marked the end of the Iron Curtain and the start of the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterward.