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It was an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, along with developing friendly relations among nations. It was to be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
The Truman Doctrine was a program to encourage nations to resist communist expansion. The U.S. donated 400 million in military and economic aid for Greece & Turkey in order to fend off communist threats. -
After most European countries were devastated after WWII, The U.S. had feared that environmental conditions would invigorate communist revolutions. So the Marshall Plan provided 12 billion in order to aid western Europe helping to reduce threats of communist revolutions. -
The purpose of NATO is to defend member nations against threats from communist countries. This also allowed the U.S. to maintain its presence in Europe. Desired to prevent a resurgence of aggressive nationalism along with fostering political union. -
The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
the conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ( North Korea) and the Republic of Korea ( South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million people lost their lives. -
The Space Race was a 20th-century 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 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. -
A fortified and heavily guarded wall built on the boundary between East and West Berlin in 1961 by the communist authorities, chiefly to curb the flow of East Germans to the West. -
the United States in the Vietnam War began after World War II and escalated into full commitment during the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1973. It was at the time, in September 1950, that French forces began to be moderately backed by America. -
Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
A pivotal event in world history that marked the fall of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.