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the United Nations was formed after WWII to promote world peace and hopefully prevent more conflicts
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president truman asked for $400 million to send in aid to greece and turkey
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The Hollywood 10 were big names in Hollywood that were blacklisted for being accused of having communist ideals, these individuals were Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Samuel Ornitz, Ring Lardner Jr., Lester Cole, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Edward Dmytryk, and Robert Adrian Scott.
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President Truman had signed a plan that proposed the United States provide economic assistance to restore infrastructure in post-war Eastern Europe
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the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed by the United States, Canada, and several Western European countries to provide security against the Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to implement a communist government
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A civil war fought between North and South Korea, with the communist North trying i spread their government, backed by Russia, to the south, and South Korea fighting back with the help of the United States
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A 20 year long race to see who could achieve more superiority with their space programs between the U.S. and Soviet Union
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A failed military landing in southern Cuba that was secretly ran by the CIA to oppose Fidel Castro's Revolution
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The Berlin wall was put up to prevent the Soviet controlled East-Berliners from escaping to West Berlin, turning the city into a violently separated zone with two polarizing ideologies on each side
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the United States entered the Vietnam War to prevent the Chinese Government from spreading communism throughout Asia
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the first step towards German Reunification, heavy tensions and civil unrest in Eastern Europe caused the East Berlin Government to loosen it's restriction on travel to West Berlin