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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
On Nov. 24, 1947, Congress voted to hold the "Hollywood 10" in contempt. The following day the Motion Picture Association of America announced that the "Hollywood 10" directors, producers, and writers who had refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) would be fired or suspended. -
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, ia an intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. -
The Korean War was a war fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began in June of 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. -
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on October 4th 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It orbited for three weeks before it's batteries ran out. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
The wall was erected on the night of Aug. 12, 1961, to isolate the postwar allied western sectors of the former German capital from Soviet occupied East Berlin. The barbed wire that formed the initial barrier was swiftly covered with bricks and mortar. -
The US was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisors to help the South Vietnamese Government. -
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1979–1980. At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989 was a pivotal event on world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterwards.