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the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of socialist individuals and a wayfarers spreading fear of so-called communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s -
This creation was created due to WW2 when then world wanted peace. Nations were broken and in ruins so the representatives of all 50 countries gathered for the UN conference in San Francisco, California. -
This was taken place in Russia. It made peace immediately after the war and maintained the peace until the start of the Cold War. -
NATO was first created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations in order to have protection against the Soviet Union. -
The Korean War was fought between North and South Korea. The war began in June of 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
The Cuban Revolution took place from 1953 to 1959 and aimed to overthrow the government in Cuba. It started in response to the 1952 Cuban coup d'état that put Fulgencio Batista in power. -
This was war between the North and South of Vietnam. There was in total about 1.3 million deaths. -
This was a competition between two Cold War rivals. They were the United States and the Soviet Union. They competed against each other to achieve superior spaceflight capability -
The Egyptian Government took over control of the Suez Canal from the British and French company that previously managed it. This event had significant implications for U.S. relationships with both Middle Eastern nations and European allies. -
This incident was United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces. The plane was in the Soviet's territory. -
At least 260 people died during this crisis. This was the first major crisis from the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Soviet engaged in an invasion of Afghanistan. A minimum of 500,000 Afghan citizens were pronounced dead. -
The Chernobyl disaster started on April 26, 1986, when the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. The plant is located near the city of Pripyat in the northern part of the Ukrainian SSR, near the border with the Byelorussian SSR, which was then part of the Soviet Union. -
This was considered to be one of the first steps to German reunification. This occurred during the Peaceful Revolution. -
The fall of the Soviet Union fell under to many reasons, one of them being because of increased crime rates and corruption within the Russian government. Shortages of foods and consumer goods also contributed.