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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security. -
It 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 -
Marshall Plan known as the European Recovery Program was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe -
United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
The U.S wants to keep Korea on its side but north Korea is communist. So in the end the war ended as the two countries stay the same. -
The War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
The Sputnik launch marked the start of the space age and the US-USSR space race and led to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). -
The Cuban-exile invasion force, known as Brigade 2506, landed at beaches along the Bay of Pigs and immediately came under heavy fire. Cuban planes strafed the invaders, sank two escort ships, and destroyed half of the exile's air support. -
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 -
the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the Berlin wall failed. And the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.