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The Second Red Scare was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of allege communist. -
Established after the World War 2 in an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems. -
At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war -
The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany. -
Created in 199 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the soviet Union -
After 5 years of simmering tensions on Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950 when the Northern Korean People invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points. -
The Iron Curtain in the cold war served as a political division between capitalist and communist nations on the western side of the Iron Curtain created the North Atlantic Treaty organization. -
The Egyptian Government seized control of the Suez Canal from the British and French owned company that managed it, had important consequences for U.S. relations with both Middle Eastern countries and European allies -
On the night of 13 - 14 August 1961, East German police and military units sealed off all arteries leading to West Berlin. -
A direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold war -
The soviet union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague -
Extensive fighting between the DRA, the soviet union and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters -
It was on 9 Nov 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled -
The turmoil led to the government in Moscow losing most of its influence, and many republics proclaiming independence in the following days and months.