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Created to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations -
A philosophy that states that America should support and help countries fight against the Soviet Union and other communist states -
The U.S. was afraid that the destruction caused by WWII would encourage communist revolutions. They enacted the Marshall Plan, which gave $12 billion to aid Europe -
NATO was a military alliance designed to provide a safeguard to the freedom and security of all its members. "An attack on one is an attack on all" -
A 1950 American short documentary film about each member denouncing McCarthyism and Hollywood blacklisting -
A war between North Korea, South Korea, and the United States. North Korea was communist while South Korea was democratic. The Soviets aided the north -
The Space Race was a competition between the Soviets and the Americans to gain a superior spaceflight capability. Sputnik 1 was the first satellite shot into space. It was launched by the Russians -
The Second Indochina War involving Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, and the United States -
A failed attempt to topple the communist government in Cuba by Americans and Cuban Revolutionists -
Split the city of Berlin in half. Designed to keep the people of the east in and the west out. Soviets controlled the East, the Americans, French, and British controlled the West -
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to prop up a communist government. In 1989, the Russians withdrew their troops and the Soviet-Afghan War ended -
Berlin Wall falls, which marked the fall of the Iron Curtain and the fall of communism in Europe