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• House Un-American Activities Committee formed
they conducted investigations through the 1940s and '50s into alleged communist activities. -
Yalta Conference
Conference of three chief allied leaders. -
Marshall Plan
Speech Delivered by George Marshall -
Potsdam Conference
A meeting of the victorious leaders of the Allies in Europe -
United Nations formation
Finding of the United nations -
Truman Doctrine
Asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece -
Berlin Airlift
Air transport to vital necessities to burlin -
NATO formation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Era of McCarthyism begins
crusade against suspected Communists in the United States government -
North Korean Invasion of South Korea
Invasion of south korea by north korean troups -
rosenberg execution
U.S. government sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair. -
• Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
armistice signed ending the fighting in the Korean War -
Warsaw Pact
An agreement between several Communist states of Europe -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. -
First American in Space
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr is the first american in space -
first man in space
Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
East German government erected the Berlin Wall in order to keep its citizens from fleeing to the West. -
First Man on the Moon
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
