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The Second Red Scare is the fear of communism. -
It was a meeting at the Yalta resort, between the Soviet Union Dictator, Joseph Stalin, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to finalize the remainder of WWII and forge a post-war settlement. -
It is a pledge to support democracies against authoritarian threats. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The purpose for this treaty was to provide security against the Soviet Union. -
The Korean War was the first confrontation of two nuclear powers, the conflict proved to both sides how difficult using atomic bombs would be. -
Fidel Castro led a military and political attempt to overthrow the Cuban government. -
The first American troop landed in South Vietnam, South Vietnam was backed by the US while the North of Vietnam was backed by the Soviet Union and China. -
The Space Race was a competition between two Great Powers, the Soviet Union and the US. The competition consisted of the Soviet Union launching Sputnik and later on the US launched Explorer I. -
Francis Gary Powers was piloting the U-2C spy plane over the Soviet Union. He was shot down, while he was 70,000 feet up in the air, with a missile he went down. -
This event was on Cuba's south coast, it was when 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade their homeland. -
It was the last major European political and military incident of the Cold War that concerned the capital city of Germany. -
It was the closest the the US and the Soviet Union came to a nuclear conflict during the Cold War. -
It was an armed protracted conflict because the Soviet Union controlled democratic Afghan. -
It was a nuclear incident that killed thirty firemen and operators workers at the site within three months. -
The Soviet of the Republics formally got dissolved as a Sovereign State and international law subject.