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  • House Un-American activities committee formed

    House Un-American activities committee formed
    It was created to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    It was the commmon name for the Cold War strategy fo containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    A primary program of the United States for rebuilding and creating a strong economic foundation for the countries of Western Europe, and repelling the threat of internal communism after World War 2.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    It made transporting French, British, and American aid to Berlin so difficult.

  • NATO formation

    NATO formation
    To cooridinate the military defenses of member nations against possible Soviet aggression.

  • Era of McCarthyism begins

    McCarthy begins investigation of Army dentist Irving Peress at Camp Kilmer.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    Military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic people's republic of Korea, supported by the peole's republic of China and the Soviet Union.

  • Rosenberg Execution

    Rosenberg Execution
    Julius died after the first strike of electricity for relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets.

  • Warsaw Pact formation

    Warsaw Pact formation
    Allowed the USSR to present itself as merely one of a group of equally concerned nations.

  • Sputnik 1 Launched

    Sputnik 1 Launched
    It was launched during the International Geophysical Year from site numberl 1, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    It was a cold military conflict that occured in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

  • First Man in space

    First Man in space
    Gagarin became the first man to travel into space, launching orbit to aboard the Vostok.

  • Bay of pigs invasion

    Bay of pigs invasion
    It was a unsuccesful attemp by the United States. It backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

  • First american in space

    First american in space
    Mercury astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. blasted off in his freedom 7 capsule.

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall
    It divide a country and a city.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    It was confrontation between the United States, The Soviet Union, and Cuba.

  • First man on the moon

    First man on the moon
    Neil Armstrong was 20 when he first went to the moon during the apollo 11 mission.