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United Nations Form
Was a diplomatic and political international organization that stated purposes to maintain international peace and security. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S made it so that the United states would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threats. -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. -
NATO Formed
The North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American. -
Korean War
Was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased after an armistice -
Hollywood 10
A 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
Space Race/Sputnik
Was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. -
Bay Of Pis
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
Berlin Wall goes up
East Germany built the wall to close off East Germany access to West Germany and hence West Germany -
U.S. official enters Vietnam War
Johnson made the decision—with solid support from the American public—to send U.S. combat forces into battle in Vietnam. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. -
Berlin Wall comes down
Happened during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain