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The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. -
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era. -
proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe -
a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. -
fought between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, supported by the US and other members of the UN. -
preventing a communist takeover of the region. -
The world's first artificial satellite -
failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. -
to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state -
intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War -
the formal opening of the border between Soviet-controlled, Communist East Berlin and Western-occupied West