Cold War

  • united nations formed

    is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security
  • truman doctrine

    the principle that the U.S. should give support to countries or peoples threatened by soviet forces or communist insurrection
  • hollywood 10

    producers,directors and screenwriters who refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations
  • marshall plan

    was an american initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to western europe
  • nato formed

    (north atlantic treaty organization, north atlantic alliance) an intergovernmental military alliance among 28 european countries and 2 north american countries.
  • korean war

    was a war fought between north korea and south korea from 1950 to 1953
  • space race/sputnik

    launch marked the start of the space age and the US-USSR space race
  • bay of pigs

    invasion,abortive invasion of cuba at the bahia de cochinos
  • berlin wall goes up

    the wall was erected to isolate the postwar allied western sectors of the former german capital from soviet occupied east berlin
  • u.s. officially enters vietnam war

    president johnson launches a three year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in north vietnam
  • soviets invade afghanistan

    invaded under the pretext of upholding the soviet afghan friendship treaty
  • berlin wall comes down

    citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders