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United Nations formed
Leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an international treaty to enshrine the equal rights of all people and maintain peace. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Hollywood 10
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. -
Marshall Plan
Called on European nations to work with each other and the United States on economic recovery rather than simply receive an injection of financial aid to rebuild Europe -
NATO formed
The organization was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
Korean War the conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives -
U.S. official enters Vietnam War
President Eisenhower deploys the Military Assistance Advisory Group to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. -
Space Race/Sputnik
The Soviet Union announced that they had placed a satellite called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth. The winner of the space race is a point of controversy. Most historians agree that the space race ended on 20 July 1969 when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon for the first time. -
Bay of Pigs
The goal was to overthrow Castro and establish a non-communist government that was friendly to the United States. Failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba -
Berlin Wall goes up
The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Aiming to bolster the newly established communist regime and suppress the Mujahideen rebellion against the government. -
Berlin Wall comes down
During the Peaceful Revolution. It was one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe