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An international organization committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, and promoting social progress, better living standards, and human rights. -
A group of 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters that were investigated for possible communist beliefs to threats. -
A program created by President Harry S. Truman to encourage nations to resist communist expansion -
An American initiative that was enacted to provide foreign aid for Western Europe -
A military alliance between countries from Europe and North America designed to ensure the freedom and safety of its members
through political and military means. -
A conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea. The Soviet Union supplied and advised North Korea, while the United States did the same for South Korea. -
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. -
A failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. -
Put up by the Russians in order to prevent people from leaving East Germany for West Germany -
The US officially entered the war because it was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. -
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan under the pretense of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. -
Occurred after a mass protest and after escalating pressure from the people of Eastern Europe