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The UN formed following the Second World War and was an organization made up of 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. -
The Hollywood 10 represents the 10 U.S. directors, screenwriters, and producers who were put on trial under the accusations that they were affiliated with communist -
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide economic, political and military assistance to any democratic country under threat from external or internal authoritarian forced -
A U.S. program developed from the mind of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall. When this plan was enacted it provided nearly fifteen billion dollars in helping finance rebuilding efforts in Europe -
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. -
The conflict between the Democratic Peoples republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) both respectfuly backed by the USSR and the U.S. -
The Space Race was the continuous efforts of both the U.S. and the USSR to develop technology that would get them into space, and ultimately, the moon -
The Bay of Pigs was an abortive invasion of Cuba by some 1,500 cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro. The invasion was funded and planned by the U.S. government as they wished to take down the socialist government Fidel Castro had built in Cuba -
The Berlin Wall was put up to stop an the movement of the population and skilled workers from the eastern, communist part of Germany, to the western, more prosperous part of Germany. -
The U.S. entered the Vietnam war in an attempt to stop the spread of communism which was controlling the northern Vietnamese nation -
Russia would Invade Afghanistan in an effort to help establish a communist government during a time in which Afghanistan was dealing with communist revolutions -
On the night of November 9th, 1989, crowds of German citizens began to dismantle the Berlin Wall that had long represented the Cold War division of Europe