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House Un-American Activities Committee formed
To investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties. -
Yalta Conference
Wartime meeting with the heads of government. -
United Nations formation
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis Powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter -
Potsdam Conference
This conference was to negotiate terms for the end of World War ll. -
Truman Doctrine
Offers food and aid to Greece and Turkey so they will resist communism. -
Marshall Plan
Opens aid to other European countries. -
Berlin Airlift
To carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. 4,000 tons a day was required. -
NATO formation
Is a military alliance joining nations of West Europe and North America. -
North Korean Invasion of South Korea
Conflict between Communist and non-communist forces in Korea. -
Rosenberg Execution
American communists who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. -
Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
Says that the 155 mile battlefront would stop and the communists also agreed to release 3,500 POW's. Within a week. -
Warsaw Pact formation
was formed by the soviet union and its satellites in response to NATO. -
Sputnik 1 Launched
Earths 1st orbiting artificial satellite. -
First Man in Space
Yuri Gagarin became the 1st human in outer space and the first to orbit the earth and received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space. -
First American in Space
Alan Shepard Jr was the second person and first American in space, and fifth person to walk thee moon. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The wall stopped almost all such immigration and separated the GDR from West Berlin for more than a quarter of a centuary. -
First Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk the moon using the aircraft Apollo 11.
