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The United Nations was formed as a general international organization, based on the principle of sovereign equality of all nations.
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10 Hollywood motion picture producers were sentenced to 1 year in jail because they were suspected members of the communist party.
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The Truman Doctrine was a United States foreign policy established by President Harry S. Truman in 1947. 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.
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The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program 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. It was formally called the European Recovery Program.
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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.
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The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid.
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The “space race” was a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
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The purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
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The US was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies, and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.
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The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. They were met with guerilla warfare from the Mujahidin. The US government launched its extensive covert operation in support of the Mujahedin against the Soviet army. The Soviets withdrew after 10 years due to instability and they realized that if they pulled out, the U.S. would too.
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Five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. The Berlin Wall dismantling saw anti-communism, and communism intolerance spread quickly around Eastern Europe with free elections and economic reforms following suit.