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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations -
The Truman Doctrine was a United States foreign policy established by President Harry S. Truman. It was intended to prevent the spread of Communism in the aftermath of World War II by providing U.S. support to countries thought to be targets of influence by the Soviet Union. -
A short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
Designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
The Communist North Korea invade the non-Communist South Korea to try and spread Communism then the US stepped in to aid South Korea and eventually reached an armistice with North Korea -
The competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who has the best space flight capability -
A CIA financed and trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro -
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. -
The U.S. entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism, but foreign policy, economic interests, national fears, and geopolitical strategies also played major roles. -
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in order to spread Communism where they were met with Afghan Mujahideen fighters which lead to the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan -
As the Cold War began to end across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West