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House Un-American Activities Committee formed
the investigation of un-American and subversive activities.Right after his appointment dies received a message from the Ku Klux Klan -
United Nations formation
States festablished international organizations to cooperate on specific matters -
Yalta Conference
wartime meeting of the leaders of governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, the purpose was to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization -
Potsdamn Conference
was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern. -
Truman Doctrine
a policy set by U.S. President Harry S Truman stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to stop them from getting into the Soviet sphere -
Marshall Plan
was the large-scale economic program of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic government for the countries of Europe -
Berlin Airlift
There was barely any cooperaton between the powers. The west created an idividualized government in their zones. The Soviets harassed the western traffic to and from Berlin to stop this -
NATO formation
is an intergovernmental military alliance thats based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
North Korean Invasion of South Korea
UN condemns North Korean invasion -
Era of McCarthyism begins
based on the actions of Wisconsins Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1940s and 1950s and it signifies the extreme anti-Communist movement that occurred in the United States -
Rosenberg Execution
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets. They were the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage -
Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea -
Warsaw Pact formation
name given to an agreement between several Communist states of Europe -
Sputnik 1 Launched
the first artificial satellite. it was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union and was also the first in a series of satellites collectively known as the Sputnik program -
First Man in Space
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft -
First American in Space
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr shot into space in his Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket. His 15-minute sub-orbital flight made him the first American in space -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
was the physical split between West Berlin and East Germany. It was also the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War -
First Man on the Moon
they launched from Florida on july 16 and was ran by Neil Armstrong
