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The Hollywood 10 was 10 movie directors, producers, and screenwriters who were accused of being communist spies, and were brought before congress where they largely refused to answer questions relating to their stance on communism, which contributed to the Red Scare that was taking over America -
An alliance of countries like the US, the UK, France, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China, as well as 46 others, to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, and promote social progress, better living standards, and human rights. -
The Truman Doctrine was the USA's official announcement that it would give support to any countries or people that were being threatened by Communist idealism to prevent the further spread of Communism -
The Marshall Plan was a US-sponsored program that aimed to provide aid to the economies of several European countries that had been largely damaged by the Cold War in an effort to create a stable Europe -
NATO was formed by the US, Canada, and many European countries with the purpose of collective security against the Soviet Union and the threat of communism through military and political means -
The Korean War was fought between Northern and Southern Korea, with the North being a Soviet proxy and the South being an American proxy, with the American intent to prevent the spread of communism to the rest of Korea -
The Vietnam War was a war fought between America and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, to stop the advancement of Communism in the Indochina area, with the war ending largely in an American loss as the US had to pull out of Vietnam without clear victory over the Viet Cong -
The Space Race was the race to see which country between the USA and USSR would reach space, and consequentially the moon first, and while Russia got to space first with the Sputnik, America got to the moon first with the Saturn V -
The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion of Cuba while it was under Communist control, and it was planned to be a Cuban exile lead revolution with support from the US military, but America pulled out at the last second and left the exiles to basically fend for themselves, and as such the incision failed -
The Berlin Wall went up because citizens were leaving Eastern Berlin for Western Berlin, which was bad for the USSR, so they built the Berlin Wall to keep citizens in East Berlin and stop them from escaping from Soviet Russias grasp -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan under the guise of the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty which was when the two countries agreed to support each other if either was in need and there was a rebel uprising in Afghanistan -
As the Cold War was ending, the Soviet leader Gorbachev chose to tear down the wall after increasing protests of the separation and isolation from the Western world, and with the Soviets, with domestic problems and threats from the US, decided to take down the wall