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51 countries that are committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. They all came together to help each other achieve these goals. -
Provides political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
10 people in the film industry refusing to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations and after spending time in prison were blacklisted by most Hollywood studios. -
The Secretary of Stare George Marshall, proposed the plan in 1947 that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. President Truman signed the Economic Recovery act in 1948. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada and multiple Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
War fought between North and South Korea for 3 years. FIghting for their type of government to become the same for the other. -
The first artificial satellite Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union, marking the start of the space race. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military operation landing in Cuba. When the planes that were painted to look like Cuban air forces were above Cuba most of the bombers missed their targets leaving the air force intact. When they landed they were immediately under intense fire. -
In order to stop the people from moving from the East to West during a civil war in Germany. So a wall was built to seperate the two and stop the free crossing of people to either side. -
The United States wanted to prevent the takeover of communist in the region so they decided to join the war and try and stop the spread of communism. -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to suppress the Islamic Basmachi movement. -
As the Cold War began to come to an end people were allowed to leave at midnight on November 9th. People from both the East and the West came to the wall and were drinking and cheering about being able to leave.