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United Nations Formed
Intergovernmental Organization that aims to maintain international peace and security and develop friendly relations between nations. -
Truman Doctrine
The idea that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by soviet forces or communist insurrection. -
Marshall Plan
a program for financial aid and other initiatives. -
Nato Formed
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American Countries. -
Hollywood 10
represented a flash point of contention between the governmental body of HUAC and the film industry. -
Korean War
War fought between North and South Korea. North was backed by the Soviet Union and China while South Korea was backed by the United Nations along with the United States. -
Space Race/ Sputnik
Competition between United States and The Soviet Union. To achieve superior spaceflight capability. The Space Race brought pioneering launches of artificial satellites, robotic space probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and ultimately to the Moon. -
Bay of Pigs
Failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961. By Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's -
Berlin Wall Goes up
Concrete Barrier that Both physiology and ideologically divided berlin. It cut off West berlin from the Surrounding East Berlin. -
U.S officially enters the Vietnam war
President Johnson ordered U.S Marine battalions to defend the American airbase at Da Nang, Vietnam. It marked the first time combat troops were inserted into the war. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
Soviets send thousands of troops, into Afghanistan. And assumed full military control and pollical control of most parts of the country. -
Berlin wall comes down
Marked the falling of the iron curtain and the start of the fall of communism in eastern and central Europe.