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united nations formed
a group of countries coming together to keep the peace in the world and resolve conflict it originally started with 51 members but now consists of 193 members -
Truman Doctrine
the truman doctrine was created by president truman to give assistance to democratic countries at risk of going communist so that they would continue to be democratic the assistance would be military, money, and resources -
hollywood 10
during this time the united states people were very scared of communism it was called the red scare it was where the american people feared communism so much that they were scared of immigrants and soon that fear spread to film they feared that the people making movies were for communism and the government had people in hollywood sign a document saying they were against communism and the hollywood 10 are the people in hollywood that would not sign -
marshall plan
the plan that the united states would give europe economic assistance to prevent the USSR from expanding -
NATO formed
NATO formed as an alliance between 30 countries from north america and europe it was an alliance to protect the allies freedom and political and military freedoms -
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korean war
the korean war was fought between north korea and south korea. the soviet supported north korea and the united states supported south korea and ended with the division of the countries still to this day with a dictatorship one side and a democracy on the other -
space race/ sputnik
sputnik was the first ever satellite to be launched into space and was done by the soviet union unfortunately the satellite burned up and was destroyed almost a year later reentering the earth's atmosphere -
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bay of pigs
the bay of pigs invasion was a failed attempt to overthrow cuba's leader done by the CIA -
Berlin Wall goes up
the berlin was put up to keep eastern germany separated from western germany. western germany was controlled by france britain and the united states and eastern europe was controlled by the soviet union the soviet didn't want people running away from eastern germany to western germany. -
U.S. officially entered the vietnam war
the united states didn't want communism to spread in western vietnam so they joined the war to prevent that from happening -
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soviet invasion of afghanistan
the soviet union invaded afghanistan in an attempt to put them under a communist government/pro-soviet government and kwickly the war was ended in a settlement of the soviet troops controlling many parts of afghanistan -
Berlin Wall comes down
the berlin came down because of political reform from inside eastern germany