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The dictator of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin, seized control of several eastern European nations
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Delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish a new organization called the United Nations
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When the Allies refused to budge, Stalin ordered a blockade of Berlin, hoping to starve the allies out of the city
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Ten Western European countries formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. An attack upon any North Atlantic Treaty Organization country, would be treated as an attack against them all.
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North Korean troops armed with Soviet tanks and weapons overran most of South Korea to try and unite the country under a communist government.
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McCarthy lost public support for his crusade when he made false charges against the U.S. Army on television.
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Vietnam won its independence from france
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Military cooperation among the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany. If any one of these nations was attacked, the others promised to come to defend it.
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East Germany and the Soviet Union tried to stem the tide of East Germans fleeing to West Berlin by putting up a wall between the two parts of the city. It divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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The superpowers took their first step toward controlling the arms race when they signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty, which banned nuclear testing in the air, the ocean, and outer space.
