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The United Nations was formed by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and some other countries to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
The Truman Doctrine stated the the United States would the help any democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Recovery Act signed by President Truman that stated that the United States would provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, was formed by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. It is also the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Lasted 3 years
A war that was fought between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea starting the war -
The Holywood 10 was a group of 10 film industry members who refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era. -
A competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who could achieve superior spaceflight first. Lasted 20 Years. -
1400 Cubans from the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front invaded but the invasion failed -
The Berlin Wall was built buy the German Democratic Republic to prevent people from escaping East Berlin, which was Soviet controlled, to West Berlin. -
Johnson made the decision to join th Virtnam War by sending U.S. combat forces into battle in Vietnam. They did this with solid support from the American public. -
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan aiming to bolster the newly established communist regime and suppress the Mujahideen rebellion against the government. They sent in some 30,000 troops and toppled the short-lived presidency of People's leader Hafizullah Amin. -
Germany reunified which triggered a swift collapse of the other East European regimes. Then thirteen months later, after Berlins peaceful revolution, the wall finally came down. This marked the beginning of the fall of communism.