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United Nations formed
The United Nations was an intergovernmental organization meant to maintain international peace and security, and keep friendly relations between nations -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a principle that the US should give their support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. -
Hollywood 10
10 producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program that was designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II -
NATO formed
NATO was an intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American countries to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
A war fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. -
Space Race/Sputnik
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
Berlin Wall goes up
The wall was built to prevent the population of Berlin from escaping the Soviet-controlled East Berlin and getting to West Berlin. -
U.S. official enters Vietnam War
President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of bombing of targets in North Vietnam and Operation Rolling Thunder. Then the U.S. Marines landed on beaches in South Vietnam as the first American combat troops to enter Vietnam. -
Soviets 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 comes down
Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in the city's relations with the West, and citizens were now free to cross the country's borders.