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Creation of the United Nations
The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after 29 nations had ratified the Charter. As world war 2 was about to end in 1945, nations were in ruins and the world wanted peace. -
Second Red Scare
The fear of communism that spread through American politics, culture, and society. -
Truman Doctrine
It was a policy which stated that thee US would give aid to any country threatened by communism. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the cold war. After much negotiation, 12 nations came together to form an alliance for collective defense. -
Creation of NATO
The north Atlantic treaty organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the western Hemisphere. -
Korean War
Conflict between North and South Korean in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. -
Creation of the Iron Curtain/Warsaw Pact
The Iron Curtain in the cold war served as a political division between capitalist and Communist nations. Capitalist nations created the north Atlantic treaty Organization as a military alliance to defend each other from threats of Communism on the eastern side, Communist. -
Space Race
Competition between United States and Soviet Union for space technology. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold war. -
Suez Crisis
The Suez Canal is a man-made waterway in Egypt. It connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt took control followed by Israel, France, and Great Britain. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
An attack by the CIA to remove Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power that failed. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The confrontation is widely considered the closest the cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war. IN 1961 the US government put Jupiter nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey. -
Soviet-Afghan War
The soviet-Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. In December 1979 The soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, aiming to bolster the newly established communist regime and suppress the mujahedeen rebellion against the government. -
Chernobyl Disaster
Nuclear power explosion at plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification. In 1989 political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany.