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United Nations Formation
United Nations is an intergovernmental organization whose purpose is to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
Truman Doctrine
Program to encourage nations to resist communist expansion
– U.S. gave $400 million in military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey to fight off communist threats -
Hollywood 10
Motion Picture Association of America announced that the “Hollywood 10” directors, producers, and writers who had refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) would be fired or suspended. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan gave $12 billion in aid to Western Europe
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Formation of Nato
Western Europe Goes U.S. to form a group of countries that protect each other and work together. These contries include, Canada, Middle East-Turkey and Israel, Asia-Taiwan, S. Korea, S. Vietnam, Australia and Philippines -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. -
US Officially Entered Vietnam War
President Truman pledges support for South Korea -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
Berlin Wall goes Up
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. -
Berlin Wall destruction
It was German people who finally tore down the barrier. The story of the Berlin Wall is one of division and repression, but also of the yearning for freedom