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established after WWll in order to maintain peace, security, and economic, social, and humanitarian problems similar to League of Nations. -
The U.S. would provide political, economical, and military 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. The Second Red Scare was a time period marked by the fear of a communism takeover during the initial phases of the Cold War Era. -
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
NATO's fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means. -
North Korea attacked South Korea on June 25, 1950, igniting the Korean War. Cold War assumptions governed the immediate reaction of US leaders, who instantly concluded that Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin had ordered the invasion as the first step in his plan for world conquest. -
the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik-1, the world's first artificial satellite. -
failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. -
Communist government built a barbed wire and concrete wall splitting east and west berlin -
3,500 United States Marines came ashore at Da Nang as the first wave of U.S. combat troops into South Vietnam, adding to the 25,000 U.S. military advisers already in place. The US Government deployment of ground forces to Da Nang had not been consulted with the South Vietnamese government. -
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. Combat took place throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. -
It was brought about by political reforms inside the Soviet bloc, escalating pressure from the people of eastern Europe and ultimately, confusion over an East German directive to open the border.