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Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States.
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1945 statagey meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Feb 4-11 1945
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Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace.
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The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945.
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President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements.
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Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after WWII.
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Program in which U.S. and British pilot flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet Blockade.
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Military alliance formed to counter soviet expansion.
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February 9. McCarthy delivers speech in Wheeling, West Virginia and displays a list of 205 Communists in the State Department apparently harbored by Communist sympathizers in high places.
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North Korea, with the backing of the Soviet Union, attacked South Korea.
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Accused of passing on Atomic secrets
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The initial mobile campaign transitioned to trench warfare, lasting from January 1951 until the 1953 border stalemate and armistice.
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Military Alliance of the Soviet Union and its Sattelite states.
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The Soviet Union threw down the gauntlet when on October 4, 1957, Sputnik I was launched into space as the first orbiting satellite.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space.
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On May 5, a former Navy test-pilot named Alan Shepard -- judged by many to be the best pilot among the Original Seven astronauts -- became the first American in space.
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August 13, the date in 1961 when construction of the Berlin Wall began.
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American Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon.
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