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United Nations Formed
– maintain international peace and security, to safeguard human rights, to provide a mechanism for international law, and to promote social and economic progress -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. Showed US stance against communism -
Marshall Plan
Proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism. -
Hollywood 10
A group of 10 writers, directors that were investigated for possible communist beliefs or threats -
Nato Formed
Military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies -
Korean War
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea, while the communists helped North Korea -
U.S. officials entered the Vietnam War
War between the communist armies of North Vietnam and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States. Conflict between Communism and Capitalism -
Berlin Wall goes up
Separated E. and W. Germany, forming the boundary of the "Iron Curtain". Further divided the Communists and
the Capitalists -
Bay of Pigs
A failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power -
Space Race/Sputnik
competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy. -Cold War rivalry between the two nations on attaining first in space exploration -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
A nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting the Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan government against the Mujahideen resistance. -
Berlin Wall comes down
Berlin wall taken down; Beginning of the fall of communism and the Soviet Union - symbolized the failure of communism and massive socialism