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United Nations formed
The United Nations (UN) was established as an international organization to promote peace and security among nations. It was created in response to the destruction of World War II with the aim of preventing future wars. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood Ten were a group of film industry professionals who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. It stated that the U.S. would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces -
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries after World War II. -
NATO formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established as a military alliance between several North American and European countries to provide collective security against the Soviet Union -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a conflict between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the support of the United Nations, principally from the United States). The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended in an armistice with Korea still divided into two hostile states. -
Space Race/Sputnik
The Space Race was a competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to achieve superior spaceflight capability. The launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, by the Soviet Union marked the beginning of this era. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba, carried out by the CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles -
Berlin Wall goes up
The Berlin Wall was erected by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to prevent its citizens from fleeing to West Berlin and West Germany -
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U.S official enters Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war began in 1954 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s), after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued until 1975 when the South Vietnamese government collapsed, ending the Vietnam War. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to support the Afghan communist government against anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War -
Berlin Wall comes down
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War era. The event symbolized the end of Communist rule in Eastern Europe and the end of separation between East and West Germany