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It is an organization founded by 51 countries in order to maintain international peace, develop friendly relations among nations, and promote social progress, better living standards, and human rights. -
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, 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. -
President Harry Truman gave countries money to try and encourage them to fight off any communist countries attempt to expand into them. -
It was a U.S. program providing aid to western Europe following the devastation of WWII, with the United Kingdom, and France being the top two countries receiving the most aid. -
NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it is an alliance of countries within Europe and North America, each of those countries has a pledge to protect other members if they are attacked, and has agreed to support each other. -
This was a war that happened between North and South Korea, they were fighting over their political differences, with North Korea being communist and South Korea being democratic.
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The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the United States and the Soviet Union, aiming to show superiority in spaceflight.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an attempt in 1961 to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba. The CIA trained Cuban exiles and these exiles launched an attack in a bay called the Bay of Pigs. The invasion was a failure and most of the attackers were captured or killed.
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The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. The wall split right down the middle of Germany. -
The U.S. entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism, but foreign policy, economic interests, national fears, and geopolitical strategies also played major roles. The whole war lasted about 20 years, but once the U.S. entered, it ended in around 1973. -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 24 1979 under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. The treaty was signed in 1978 and the two countries agreed to provide economic and military assistance.
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It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans.