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United Nations Formed
-The United Nations was formed to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations between nations, and promote social progress. -
Truman Doctrine
-A program created by the U.S. to stop European countries from doing the Communist reset. -U.S. gave $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey to fight off Communist threats. -
Hollywood 10
-A group of ten film industry members refused to testify to an anti-communist committee during the second red scare. -
Marshall Plan
-Gave European countries $12 billion in aid. -Helped prevent the threat of communist revolution. -
Nato formed
-Military alliance -
Korean War
-War between North and South Korea. -Still has a lot of tension now. -Went from 6/25/1950 - 7/27/1953 -
US Officials Enter Vietnam War
-US officials enter the Vietnam War via marines. -First came 25,000 troops. -
Space Race / Sputnik
-A competition between USSR and US to get to space first after the Cold War. -8/2/1955-10/4/1957 -
Bay Of Pigs
-1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -4/17/1961-4/20/1961 -
Berlin Wall Goes Up
-Way to stop people from going from one side of Germany to the other for better jobs -Symbol of the cold war -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
-the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. -12/24/1979-2/15/1989 -
Berlin Wall Falls
-Although changes in the GDR leadership and encouraging speeches by Gorbachev about nonintervention in Eastern Europe boded well for reunification, the world was taken by surprise when, during the night of November 9, 1989, crowds of Germans began dismantling the Berlin Wall—a barrier that for almost 30 years