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The UN was formed following WWII to maintain peace and security. They strive to achieve cooperation between nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems.Since both the United States and Soviet Union held vetoes, the Security Council could not act without their joint permission.
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Truman Doctrine committed the US to a foreign policy based on the strategy of containment. Truman hoped to stop the spread of communism, limiting the system to countries in which it already existed.
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The Hollywood 10 was a group of 10 people involved in film refused to testify to an anti-communist committee. This was during a time of major fear of communism during the Cold War Era.
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The Marshall Plan gave $12 billion in aid to Western Europe.Helped reduce the threat of communist revolution.
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NATO was formed after WWII to secure peace in Europe. NATO was countering the threat posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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The Korean War was a proxy war for the Cold War.
Concerned that the Soviet Union might have encouraged this invasion, Truman committed United States forces to the combined UN forces assisting the Republic of Korea in its defense. -
The Sputnik launch marked the start of the space age and the US-USSR space race, and led to the creation of the NASA. Americans and Soviets competed to prove their technological and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to put a human into space.
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The US sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Castro's government. They failed. The invasion was apart of the Cold War as the US was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in the Americas.
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The Berlin Wall would prevent the West from having further influence on the East, stop the flow of migrants out of the communist sector. Major image of the Cold War.
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The U.S. entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism. In that respect, it failed: the two Vietnams were united under a communist banner in July 1976. Neighboring Laos and Cambodia similarly fell to communists.
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Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. 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.
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It was brought about by political reforms inside the Soviet bloc, escalating pressure from the people of eastern Europe and ultimately, confusion over an East German directive to open the border.