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An intergovernmental organization aiming in trying to maintain international peace and security among the people and government. This also was made to create more friendly relations between other nations and served as a compromising system. -
A policy established by president Truman, intended to further stop the spread of communism by providing support to countries thought to be influenced by the Soviet Union -
Hollywood 10 was ten motion picture producers, directors and screenwriters whom appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee for possible communist affiliations to which they refused to respond to , and then ended up in prison. -
This was a program designed to rehabilitate the economies of several European countries by helping combat poverty, disease and hunger. -
An intergovernmental military alliance which was established during the aftermath of World War II in hopes to try and resolve the lasting tensions dealt with after war, this organization also implemented the North Atlantic Treaty. -
Conflict between North Korea and South Korea, Stalin supported the North with supplies and they invaded the South, Later the US joined to help South Korea in the war. -
The Space Race was essentially a new technological competition between the US and the Soviet Union aiming to show superiority and see who could explore space the quickest, showing off their potential in new inventions and capability in spaceflight. -
The invasion of Cuba in the attempts to fight against the communist government, controlled by Fidel Castro. This attack was a major failure as soldiers were immediately under fire -
Built by the German Democratic Republic to keep the population from escaping East Berlin to West Berlin, this wall divided the city in half, physically cutting off from the Soviet zone of East Berlin. -
US entered the war in hopes of stopping the spread of communism and defend other countries from the force of the soviet union, which had been difficult for Vietnam itself to deal with alone. -
Soviets invaded Afghanistan in hopes of elevating the communist government in the area and to further uphold the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty , this ended any further negotiation between the two countries. -
After 28 years of the Berlin Wall separating Berlin in half and serving as the "Iron Curtain" between soviet led communism and democracies in the west, finally the main symbol of the Cold War had been taken down.