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The United Nations was founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security -
The Truman Doctrine was the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection -
An US-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union -
10 motion picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House un-American activities community in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations -
The Korean War was caused by the spread of communism during the Cold War, American containment, and Japanese occupation of Korea during World War 2. It lasted from June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953 -
Abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), or Playa Giron (Giron Beach) to Cubans, on the southwestern coast by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro -
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west -
President Johnson launches a 3-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder -
A 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability -
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to try to prop up the communist government there. The Soviet-Afghan War was December 24, 1979-February 15, 1989 -
The spokesman for 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 countries borders