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House Un-American Activites Commitee formed
Created to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees. -
Yalta Conference
The big three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria and Romania would hold free elections. -
United Nations Formation
It was a organization that many hoped would succeed where the League of Nations had failed. -
North Korean invasion of South Korea
Within days, the northerners took overtook the South Korean capital city of Seoul. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held from July 16 to August 2 in Potsdam. -
Truman Doctrine
It was a policy set forth U.S. President Harry S Truman. -
Marshall Plan
It was the large scale economic program. -
Berlin Airlift
It was where they dropped of supplies and good for Berlin. -
NATO Formation
It provided the military alliance to counter Soviet expansion. -
Era of McCarthyism begins
Joseph R. McCarthy charged that the state Dept. was filled with agents that were communists. -
Rosenburg Execution
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's historic execution in 1953. Found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets, the Rosenbergs were the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage. -
Armistice signed ending the Korean War
It was signed so they would stop fighting. -
Warsaw Pact Formation
The Soviet Union and its satellite states formed a rival military alliance. -
Sputnik 1 launched
Russia launched Sputnik, they were in a space race with the United States. -
First man in space
Yuri Gagarin was the first man to be in space. -
First American in space
Alan B Shepard Jr was the first American to reach space. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The built the Berlin Wall to seperate Berlin from the rest of Germany. -
First man on moon.
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
