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The United Nations Organization or just United Nations is an intergovernmental organization whose purpose is to maintain international peace and security.
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the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
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Hollywood Ten, in U.S. history, 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations.
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The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a national security alliance among the U.S., Canada, and their European allies.
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The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
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President Eisenhower deploys the Military Assistance Advisory Group to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
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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.
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 as well as encircling and separating West Berlin from East German territory.
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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.
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 as well as encircling and separating West Berlin from East German territory.