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House Un-American Activities Committee formed
I only know when it started by the yaer. It was use to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. -
United Nations formation
The United States and 26 other nations came together to defeat the axis powers. -
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference, meeting (Feb. 4–11, 1945), Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Met in secret to discuss military and political issues. -
Potsdam Conference
This controlled Germanys production of arms, ships, and aircraft. -
Truman Doctrine
He said that is was important that Greece survive as a "free" country. He has to convinve the American public to buy in to his plan, because most of the public were against his plan. -
Marshall Plan
In a time of hunger and a economic problem, George Marshall proposed a bill that would rebuild the nation. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviot Union tried to take over Berlin and blockaded the city so it woulf starve. The US along with other countries sent in daily shipments of food and supplies on airplanes. -
NATO formation
I am not sure when it started besides the year 1949.The United States and 11 other countries banded together to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato). To stop possible communist expansion. -
Era of McCarthyism begins
It lasted through out the 1950's. It is a time when public officials and private citizens were accused of being communists or communist sympathizers. -
North Korean Invasion of South Korea
I am not sure when it strated beside June 1950 it ended in July 1953. North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations had to take action. -
Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
Talks had gone on for nearly 2 years about ending the war but nothing ever was done about it. Until President Eisenhower said if he was reelected he would end the war,He did just that. -
Sputnik 1 Launched
The worlds first satalite about the size of a beach ball was put in space. -
First Man in Space
A Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had a 108 minute orbit in space, which was successful and he became the fist man/ human in space. -
First American in Space
He went on a 15 minute sub-orbital flight which made him the 1st American in space. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
It lasted from the posted date to November 9th 1989. -
First Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong became the first person ever to be on the moon. -
Rosenberg Execution
I only know it started in April of 1985. the general secretaries of the communist and workers' parties of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Hungary, Poland, and Romania gathered in Warsaw to sign a protocol extending the effective term of the 1955 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, which originally established the Soviet-led political-military alliance in Eastern Europe. -
Warsaw Pact formation
The communists answer to NATO.
