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The United Nations was formed so nothing like what happened in WW2 could never happen again -
The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces -
to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II -
to provide collective security against the Soviet Union -
Motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947 -
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 -
A series of competitive technology demonstrations between the United States and the Soviet Union, aiming to show superiority in spaceflight -
An abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro -
The Berlin wall was put up to split the Soviet owned East Germany and the West Germans -
An attempt to prevent the spread of communism -
Under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty -
A culmination of grassroots organisation and protests, Gorbachev's liberalisation of Soviet internal and foreign policy, the blunder of a Soviet bureaucrat and the uncertainty of a border guard