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The UN was created after the WW2 to make peace between 51 countries committed to maintain international peace -
It is an American foreign policy that originated withe the primary goal of containing soviet political expansion -
The Marshall plan was an American initiative in 1948 to provide aid to Western Europe -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance that contains 28 European countries and 2 North American countries and established after WW2 -
The Hollywood 10 were a group on Un-American men who made short documentaries and were accused of communist influence in the US during the early years of the cold war. -
A war fought between North and South Korea. North Korea invaded south Korea following clashes along the border.
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The Bay of Pigs was a failed landing operation on the southwest coast of cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution
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They put it up to keep the Western Fascists from entering east germany and undermining the socialist state -
President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder. The same month, U.S. Marines land on beaches near Da Nang, South Vietnam as the first American combat troops to enter Vietnam. -
The Space Race was a competition between the soviet union and the US to achieve spaceflight capability -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and sent thousands of troops and immediately assumed complete military and political control of large portions of the country.
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This date marked the falling of the wall which was a huge pivotal point in history and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe