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United nations formed
committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. -
Hollywood 10
a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era. -
Marshall Plan
proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
The doctrine originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman -
Nato
The North Atlantic Alliance was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom -
Korean War
hen the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel, the line dividing communist North Korea from the non-communist Republic -
Space Race
a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight. -
Bay of Pigs
a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. -
Berlin Wall goes Up
to isolate the postwar allied western sectors of the former German capital from Soviet occupied East Berlin -
Us Official Enters Vietnam War
The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The war began after the Soviets, under the command of Leonid Brezhnev, had militarily intervened in, or launched an invasion of, Afghanistan to support the local pro-Soviet government that had been installed during Operation Storm-333 -
Berlin Wall Comes Down
the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders