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The House Un-American Activities Committee formed was created to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
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The Yalta Conference was a strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill,and Stalin.
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The United Nations formation promoted peace.
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The Potsdam Conference was where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland.
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The Truman Doctrine was President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements.
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The Marshall Plan was a foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War ll.
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Berlin Airlift was a program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
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The NATO formation provided the military alliance to counter Soviet expansion.
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McCarthyism was based on the actions of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthyism also became a catchword for the extreme, reckless charges.
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The North Korean Invasion of South Korea caught the United States and South Koreans by surprise.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets and sentenced to death.
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Armistice Signed to end the Korean War.
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The Warsaw Pact formation was a military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
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Sputnik was launched successfully by the Soviet Union.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space.
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Alan Shepard was the first american in space.
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The Berlin wall was a dividing wall built by East Germany to isolate West Berlin from Communist controlled East Berlin.
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Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
