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The United Nations is an organization whose goal is to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations between nations, and achieve international cooperation. -
10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. These prominent screenwriters and directors, who became known as the Hollywood Ten, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios. -
President Truman announced that the US shall help and support countries or people threatened by Soviet and Communist forces. -
Also known as the economic recovery act. It proposed that the US provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) is an military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American countries that was established in the aftermath of World War II -
The war fought between North Korea and South Korea
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The US joined the war on the side of South Korea to help fend off North Korea -
The 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
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The bay of Pigs was a failed invasion landing off the southwestern coast of Cuba -
During the Cold War, the Germans erected a wall to divide Berlin and prevent its inhabitants from escaping outside of soviet controlled territory -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to help aid the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. It marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.