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The United Nations is a global organization founded after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international security and developing friendly relations among nations.
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The Truman Doctrine established that the United States would provide financial assistance to all democratic nations under threat from communist forces.
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The Hollywood Ten was a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era.
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US Secretary of State George Marshall proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
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NATO is an alliance of countries from Europe and North America formed in 1949 for defense and security.
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After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when 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
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The U.S. entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism.
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The “space race” was a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities.
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The Bay of Pigs was a failed attack to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
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The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western fascists from entering East Germany, but it mostly stopped mass desertions from East to West.
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The war began after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan under the control of Leonid Brezhnev.
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The opening of the border between Communist East Berlin and Democratic West Berlin in 1989.