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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization, The main goal for them was to maintain international peace and to develop friendly relationships with nations. Wanted to help after WWll. -
Truman first announced this idea during a speech. Truman was requesting aid to Turkey and Greece, Communists took this as a direct declaration of war -
Also known as the European recovery plan, it was a ran by the United States in which we gave 13 billion dollars in economic recovery programs at the end of WWll. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance. Implements the North Atlantic treaty. Established in the aftermath of WWll with 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. -
They were sentenced to one year in jail. The 10 men refused to answer questions posed by HUAC as to if they supported the communist party. -
It was fought between North Korea and South Korea. It started when North Korea invaded South Korea and sparked the war which lasted 3 years long. The U.S. fought alongside South Korea but we lost in the end. -
20th-century competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to gain superior spaceflight capabilities. Started with the nuclear arms race. -
This was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba. They were immediately showered with gunfire. We were trying to push Fidel Castro from power in Cuba. -
The wall was put up to isolate post-war allied sectors from East Berlin. They didn't want citizens to escape. -
The U.S. joined the war to try and prevent the spread of communism. -
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed military and political control of large portions of the country. It was a 9 year long guerilla war. -
Half a million people gathered in Berlin in a mass protest. 5 days after the start of the protest the wall crumbled. This made travel much easier for East Germans.