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The United Nations was created to make peace around the world along with justice and better living conditions for all life. -
President Truman launched a policy of providing military and economic aid to nations to combat the spread of Communism. -
a group of ten writers, directors, producers, that were blacklisted from Hollywood for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. -
US led program to help reconstruct broken Western Europe after WWII -
NATO secured 30 countries from North America, and Europe to create a safeguard from the threat of the Soviet Military -
a war fought between North Korea, (Communist supported) and South Korea, (United Nations supported) fought to make both countries supported by one group. -
The space race was a race between the US and Soviet Union on trying to get to space faster then one another. The Soviet union first launched their satellite called Sputnik in 1957. Showing a major event in the Cold War. -
SED begins to seal off borders around West Berlin. This was to prevent East Germans from leaving West Berlin. -
United States landed Troops on South western Cuba to over throw Fidel Castro. -
The US first joined the Vietnam war after sending 25,000 military soldiers into South Vietnam, to combat the spread of Communism from North Vietnam, to the South, -
Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan for the fear of losing control over Central Asia, the rise of Anti-Soviet sentiment, as long as a desire to support the failing communist. -
East German government announces its boarders are opening. Connecting Germany as a whole once again.