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To maintain international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights after the second world war. -
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
It was intended to prevent the spread of Communism in the aftermath of World War II by providing U.S. support to countries thought to be targets of influence by the Soviet Union. -
a U.S.-sponsored program implemented following the end of World War II, granting $13 billion in foreign aid to European countries that had been devastated physically and economically by World War II. -
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. -
A war fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition 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 Cuban-exile invasion force landed at beaches along the Bay of Pigs and immediately came under heavy fire. -
Built to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west. -
President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder. -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in late December under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty. -
Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans.