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The Japanese attack on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, led President Franklin Roosevelt to declare war on Japan. -
Roosevelt convinced the public that there needed to be an international organization to prevent future war from happening. -
President Truman presented this address in front of Congress to ask for 400 million dollars in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
This was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
is an intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. Established in the aftermath of World War II -
The House Un-American Activities Committee was charged with investigating allegations of communist influence and subversion in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War. -
The cause of this war was, the spread of communism during the Cold War, American containment, and Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II.
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The Space Race was considered important because it showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba. -
The government of the German Democratic began to build this wall to stand in between East Berlin and the "fascist" West Berlin. -
the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
This is when the Berlin wall was taken down and this event is important because it symbolizes the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.