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In an attempt to maintain international peace and security. -
Established that the US would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations that are under threat from internal or external authoritarian forces. -
It was a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare. -
The Secretary of State George Marshall, proposed that the US provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty forms the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Conflict between North Korea and South Korea in which at least 2.5 million people lost their lives. -
Between two Cold War rivals, the US and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. -
It was a failed attack launched by the Kennedy admistration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. -
East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin. East Berlin citizens were forbidden to pass into West Berlin. -
A procrastinated conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam. -
The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. -
The head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased.