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United nation formed
in an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems -
Truman Doctrine
U.S is going to join the war if any nation from any dictators under the threat from external or internal authoritarian forces -
Hollywood 10
refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era. -
Marshall plan
rebuilt economies in Europe after WWII and provided much-needed business for American companies. -
NATO ratified
s to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Korean war begins
Stalin supported north korea after they had invaded south korea and war begins -
Sputkit launched
Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit. Thus, began the space age. The successful launch gave the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space. -
Sputnik 2
the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit and was the first such biological spacecraft. It was a 4 meter high cone-shaped capsule with a base diameter of 2 meters. -
Bay of Pigs
abortive invasion of Cuba Bay of Pigs on the southwestern coast by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin -
Soviet forces invade afghanistan
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. -
Berlin wall is demolished
the first step towards German reunification. In 1989, political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany.