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After WW ll in an attempt to maintain international peace and security. they formed the United Nations -
In 1947 they put the Berlin Wall up in hopes of stopping the West from further influencing the east and stopping migration -
The Truman Doctrine is basicly the United States saying they will provide political, military, and economic assistance to democratic countries that are under threat from external or internal forces -
The Hollywood 10 was 10 actors who were caused of being a communist and when they were brought to court and asked to testify they said nothing -
it was a plan to help Western Europe and and gave them over 13 billion dollars to help -
when NATO was first formed it had 12 countries including the United States United Kingdom Belgium Canada and France there are more and it was made to have security against big scary soviet union -
the Korean War was originally South Korea vs North Korea because North Korea wanted to over South Korea and the United States was on South Koreas side -
The space race/ Spudnic was between the United States and The Soviet Union during the Cold War which wasn't fought with guns but politically and just seeing who was better one of the things they did was see who could get to the moon first and the United States won the space race putting Neil Armstrong on the moon -
The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion of Cuba trying to attack Castro the united states was trying to overthrow Castro to stop communism but failed -
On March 8th, 1965 the United States entered the Vietnam War because and they entered it because of fear of communism -
on December 24th, 1979 the soviet union invaded Afghanistan to try to spread communism to and beat anit communist Muslim guerrillas -
On November 9th, 1989 the Berlin Wall fell marking the first big step toward German reunification