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The U.N was created in 1942 to maintain international peace and security and to have cooperation between nations. -
The Iron Curtain was formed in at the end of world war ll in 1945 and the end of the cold war in 1991. -
The Second Red Scare occurred after world war Il was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government. -
Joseph Stalin the leader of the soviet union tried to cut off the river ways and land leadinging into berlin. The western countries came to berlins aid with an massive airlift. -
The North Atlantic Organization was formed in 1949. the purpose for the creation of the organization was to give collective security against the soviet union. -
The North Korean people invaded South Korean. over 2.5 million people lost their lives during this conflict. the U.S. entered the war on suspicion that the soviet union encouraged the invasion. -
A conflict led by Fidel Castro to overthrow the Government of Fulgencio Batista. Many people were upset in cuba because of the racial and social inequality. -
The space race was an 20th century race between the U.S. and Russia to see who would get to space first. it was to see who dominated the space flight technology -
The Egyptian Government seized control of the Suez canal from the british and french owned company that managed it -
The bay pigs invasion was an abortive invasion into Cuba by some 1500 Cuban exiles. they were trying to overthrow Fidel Castro who they opposed of. -
Both the U.S and Cuba both were on the verge of nuclear war in 1962 during the cold war. this was the last time the world came close to using nuclear weapons. -
The Vietnam war started on november 1st 1979. The war put the communist government of north Vietnam against south Vietnam and its ally's the U.S. -
The Soviet Union under the command of Leonid Brezhnev launched an invasion into Afghanistan. he did to support the pro-soviet leader. -
The fall of the Berlin wall was the first step for German reunification. The people of Germany wanted restrictions to travel to west Germany removed. -
In 1991 the communist hardliners and military elites tried to overthrow Gorbachev and stop the reforms in a coup but it failed. the event forced the moscow government to lose its influence.