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Leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an international treaty to enshrine the equal rights of all people and maintain peace. -
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
The Hollywood Ten was a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era. -
Called on European nations to work with each other and the United States on economic recovery rather than simply receive an injection of financial aid to rebuild Europe -
The organization was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Korean War the conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives -
President Eisenhower deploys the Military Assistance Advisory Group to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. -
The Soviet Union announced that they had placed a satellite called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth. The winner of the space race is a point of controversy. Most historians agree that the space race ended on 20 July 1969 when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon for the first time. -
The goal was to overthrow Castro and establish a non-communist government that was friendly to the United States. Failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba -
The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin. -
Aiming to bolster the newly established communist regime and suppress the Mujahideen rebellion against the government. -
During the Peaceful Revolution. It was one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe