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An international organization aiming to maintain international peace and security. Made to develop friendly relations among nations and achieve cooperation.
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Asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece.
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Ten members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-America Activities Committee. The screenwriters and directors known as the 10, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios.
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Also known as the European Recovery Program, was the U.S. program providing aid to western Europe following the devastation of WW1. The U.S. transferred $3 billion in economic recovery programs to western European economics after the end of WW2.
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Treaty organization to provide collective security against the Union to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. -
The spread of communism during the Cold War, and the Japanese occupation of Korea during WW2 influenced the war. The invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. American troops had entered the war on South Korea's behalf. As far as Americans were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself.
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The spread of communism during the Cold War, and the Japanese occupation of Korea during WW2 influenced the war. The invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. American troops had entered the war on South Korea's behalf. As far as Americans were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself.
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A 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries the Soviet Union and the U.S., to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
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This was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
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This was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
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Made to keep Western "fascists" from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state. Also to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin.
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The U.S. entered the Vietnam war in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism. President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in operation Rolling Thunder. Same month U.S. marines land on beaches in South Vietnam as the first American combat troops to enter Vietnam.
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. The two countries agreed to provide economic and military assistance.
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Pivotal Event in World History marked the fall of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. The Soviet Union faced economic problems food shortages, and other major problems became a sight for the collapse of the Iron Wall.
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. The two countries agreed to provide economic and military assistance.