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House Un-American Activities Committee formed
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is the common name for the Cold War strategy of containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism. This doctrine was first promulgated by President Harry Truman in an address to the U.S. Congress on February 27, 1947. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the primary program of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Western Europe, and repelling the threat of internal communism after World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. -
NATO Formation
NATO was designed to provide strong military forces to balance the threat from the Soviet Union. The United States and Canada were expected to maintain forces in Europe as their commitment to western security. -
Era of mcCarthyism begins
McCarthyism is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. -
Rosenberg Execution
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. -
Warsaw Pact Formation
The formation of the Warsaw Pact was in contravention of the agreements reached by US president Franklin D Roosevelt, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British prime minister Winston Churchill during World War II to ensure the demilitarization and neutrality of a defeated Germany. -
Sputnik 1 Launched
Sputnik 1was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, the Vietnam Conflict or the American War [13], was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
First Man in Space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (known as La Batalla de Girón, or Playa Girón in Cuba), was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. -
First American in Space
Mercury Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr was the first american in the space -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier built by the German Democratic Republic that completely enclosed the city of West Berlin, separating it from East Germany, including East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in October 1962, during the Cold War. -
First Man on the Moon
The Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, the third lunar mission of NASA's Apollo Program was crewed by Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr
