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This was the day the UN was formed, which is an intergovernmental organization seeking to maintain world peace.
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Truman's idea of protecting nations not under Soviet control already. (Greece and Turkey)
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American initiative to give aid to Western Europe: post-WWII.
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A military alliance between democratic countries from Europe and North America. -
An American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
The war between N. Korea and S. Korea. N. Korea invaded S. Korea.
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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
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Failed U.S. attempt of overthrowing the Cuban (communist) government. Led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Berlin wall goes up; the hard division between West Germany (Capt.) and East Germany (Commu.). -
President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder. The same month, U.S. Marines land on beaches near Da Nang, South Vietnam as the first American combat troops to enter Vietnam. -
The day the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Marked the start of the Soviet-Afghan War. -
Marked the start of the fall of communism in E. and Central Europe.