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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill issue a document signed by 26 other countries promising postwar peace. -
Made to support countries who were being affected by communism from Soviet Russia, and prevent the spread of communism. -
10 Hollywood producers and screenwriters were fired and sentenced to jail for not answering questions about their communist affiliations. -
The Marshall Plan was an American program that provided foreign aid to Western Europe. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed between the US, Canada, and many Western European countries to form an alliance against the Soviet Union -
The Korean War started when communist North Korea attempted to overrun South Korea. The United States aided South Korea. -
The world's first artificial Earth satellite put into space as a part of the Soviet space program, which was a big accomplishment for Soviet Russia. -
An attack launched under the Kennedy administration on Cuba to push Fidel Castro out of power. The attack was a large failure. -
The wall was put up so nobody from the Soviet controlled east side of Berlin could get to the western side of Berlin, which was controlled by western allies. -
The US joined the Vietnam War mostly to stop communism from spreading, and also to give military aid to South Vietnam -
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to enforce the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. -
The Berlin Wall was taken down after days of protest and civil unrest put pressure on eastern Berlin to take down the wall.