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The United Nations purpose is to create peace among nations with help of elected leaders of each nation. -
The Hollywood ten were a group of 10 directors or other forms of producers in the movie industry who were claimed to be communist and wouldn't answer questions about that so they got arrested. -
Truman tries to source 400 million dollars to help Turkey and Greece. -
American supplied aid to countries wounded in world war II. They ultimately sent over/ used 13 billion dollars. -
Formed among countries including the United States, Canada, and other European countries to protect themselves against the Soviet Union -
North Korea began to invade South Korea to spread communism and at first the United States just hoped that South Korea would be able to win alone but when they couldn't we got involved to keep South Korea democratic. -
The Soviet Union and United States fought to be the first to have control of the sky and space. They united states were the first to have a successful mission. -
Exiled Cubans armed with American weapons and a landing craft tried to invade Cuba and ended up getting gunned down. -
The Berlin wall was built directly down Berlin to separate allies vs axis land. -
The US entered into Vietnam to "fight for democracy" and to stop the spread of communism but in doing so they bombed much of Vietnam. -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and took over Kabul and other cities with military force. -
The night of 11/9/1989 the East Berlins spoke person told others that they could and should freely cross the walls.