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Ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories; committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. -
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$400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. Aimed at stopping the spread of Communism, the Truman Doctrine positioned the United States as the defender of a free world in the face of Soviet aggression. -
A group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era. The 10 who would become the Hollywood Ten (Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo), plus German playwright Bertolt Brecht. -
Proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. Contributed to more positive morale in Europe and to political and economic stability, which helped diminish the strength of domestic communist parties. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom -
Fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The U.S, concerned that the Soviet Union and Communist China might have encouraged this invasion. -
The Soviet entry in a scientific race to launch the first satellite ever. The Sputnik launch marked the start of the space age and the US-USSR space race. -
A failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. -
It's purpose was to isolate the postwar allied western sectors of the former German capital from Soviet occupied East Berlin. Built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. -
The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to try to prop up the communist government there. Under the command of Leonid Brezhnev, had militarily intervened in, or launched an invasion of, Afghanistan to support the local pro-Soviet government that had been installed during Operation Storm-333. -
The head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall.