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It stated that the United States would provide political, military and economic aid to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal forces. -
The Hollywood Ten were a group of media executives who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted by the movie studios during the late 1940s and 1950s. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an intergovernmental military alliance formed in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations. NATO's primary purpose was to provide collective security against the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. -
A military conflict between the two countries of North and South Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea starting a 3 year long war. -
The Space Race was a 20th century competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for achievements in spaceflight capability. -
The U2 Spy Plane is a high altitude aircraft used by the United States. It's called a spy plane because it is used to gather information by taking pictures and collecting data well flying at extremely high altitudes. The U2 played a significant role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba in 1961, with support from the U.S. government. The goal was to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist regime in Cuba. -
Berlin wall was a German-built barrier wall built to keep people in East Berlin from fleeing war and going to West Berlin. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense standoff between the Unites States and the Soviet Union in 1962. It happened when the U.S. discovered that the Soviets were building missile bases in Cuba, which could potentially threaten the U.S. mainland. It eventually got resolved peacefully. -
The United States officially entered the Vietnam War, providing military advisors and equipment to support the South Vietnamese government against the communist North Vietnamese forces. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a major event in world history, as it symbolized the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
The Soviet-Afghan War began in 1979 when the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan and remained engaged in the country until withdrawing its forces in 1989.