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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security. Also develop friendly relationships between the nations. -
Program to encourage nations to resists communist expansion. -
US sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions. -
The first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
It was 10 motion pictures producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliation. -
The war was fought between North and South korea when the North invaded the South following clashes along the border and rebellions in south korea. -
The soviet union launched the first artificial satellite -
It was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba. -
Barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin or East Germany. -
The US joined to attempt to prevent the spread of communism. -
They invaded Afghanistan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet- Afghanistan friendship treaty. -
Political reforms, escalating pressure from the people of eastern Europe and ultimately, confusion over an East German directive to open the border.