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The United Nations was created to avoid a third world war and to keep world peace.
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President Truman established that the U.S. provided assistance to all democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces.
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10 motion-picture producers refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations
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Signed by President Truman, the Marshall Plan provided economic assistance to restore the economy of post-war Europe.
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NATO was formed to secure peace in Europe to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union
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Northern Korean people's army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at 7 strategic points
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The Space Race was a competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to make aerospace capabilities. Sputnik was a satellite that was the first manmade object to orbit the earth.
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Bay of Pigs was a failed attack by the CIA to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
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The German Democratic Republic builds barbed wire and concrete "Antifascistcher Schutzwall" between East and West Berlin to keep Western "fascists" from entering East Berlin
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The U.S. was afraid communism would spread to South Vietnam and the rest of Asia so they sent money, supplies, and military to help.
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The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan friendship treaty of 1978
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Crowds of Germans began to destroy the Berlin Wall because of political reform.