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The UN is an international organization that was founded in 1945 after the 2nd WW by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights
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A United States foreign policy established by President Harry S. Truman in 1947. It was intended to prevent the spread of communism in the aftermath of WWII by providing the US support to countries thought to be targets of influence by the soviet union 3
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10 motion picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the house un-american activities committee in october 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of congress, were most likely blacklisted by hollywood sudios
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the marshall plan, also known as the european recovery program was a US program providing aid to western europe following the devastation of WWII. it was crafted as a 4-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries, and infrastructure heavily damaged during the war and remove trade barriers between European neighbors - as well as foster commerce between those countries and the US
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the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the US, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the US entered into outside of the western hemisphere
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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 people lost their lives. the war reached international proportions when the North, supplied and advised by the soviet union, invaded the south
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the "space race" was a cold war competition between the US and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight
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the bay of pigs invasion begins when CIA-financed and trained group of cuban refugees lands in cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidal Castro. the attack was a fail.
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the wall was created on the night of August 12 1961, to isolate the postwar allied western sectors of the former German capital from Soviet occupied East Berlin. The barbed wire that formed the initial barrier was swiftly covered with bricks and mortar
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the US entered the Vietnam war in an attempt to stop the spread of communism, but foreign policy, economic interests, national fears, and geopolitical strategies also played major roles
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on december 24, 1979, the soviet union invades afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the soviet-afghan friendship treaty of 1978. as midnight approached, the soviets organized a massive military airlift into kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and 3 divisions of almost 8500 men each
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as the cold war began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for the East Berlin's communist party announced a change in his city's relations with the west. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders