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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, -
Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, in 1947 it was proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. Established in the aftermath of World War II. -
The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. The film was directed by John Berry. -
The Korean War was a war fought between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. -
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
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the wall was made to isolate the postwar allied western sectors of the former German capital from Soviet-occupied East Berlin. -
The first American combat troops – the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade – waded ashore at China Beach north of Da Nang. There had already been limited U.S.naval action, and the bombing of North Vietnam had commenced. -
The Soviet-Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal event in world history that marked the fall of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.