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United Nations Formed
Delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco to create the charter for the United Nations. The United Nations was a postwar international organization. -
Hollywood 10
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee. They refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress, were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external and internal authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War 2. -
NATO Formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
The Korean War was the first military action of the Cold War. It was sparked by the invasion of South Korea by the North Korean People's Army. -
Space Race/ Sputnik
Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth's orbit. -
Bay Of Pigs
At the Bay Of Pigs, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became an invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba -
Berlin Wall goes up
The berlin wall became the most widely recognized symbol of the Cold War. It was used to isolate the postwar allied western sectors of the former German capital from Soviet-occupied East Berlin. -
U.S. official enters Vietnam War
The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies, and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. The two countries agreed to provide economic and military assistance. -
Berlin Wall comes down
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal moment. Due to political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany.
