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Representatives of the 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against them and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
During a joint session of the Congress, President Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million to supply military & economic assistance for Greece & Turkey, then established a policy that became the Truman Doctrine. -
The U.S., Canada, and several Western European nations worked together to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
What builded up to this event was the simmering tensions on the Korean Peninsula for 5 years. Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel, the line dividing communist North Korea from the non-communist Republic of South Korea -
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 -
During the night, the GDR began building fences and barriers to seal off entry points from East Berlin into the western part of the city. This project stunned Germans on both sides of the border. -
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict where insurgent groups: the Mujahideen & Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. The treaty was signed in 1978 and the two countries agreed to provide economic and military assistance. -
The wall came down partly because of a bureaucratic accident but it fell amid a wave of revolutions that left the Soviet-led communist bloc teetering on the brink of collapse and helped define a new world order