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second red scare
The Second Red Scare was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of allege communist. -
creation of the united nations
Established after the World War 2 in an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems. -
Yalta conference
At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war -
Truman Doctrine
The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Berlin Blockade
cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany. -
creation of Nato
Created in 199 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the soviet Union -
Korean War
After 5 years of simmering tensions on Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950 when the Northern Korean People invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points. -
creation of the iron curtain/Warsaw pact
The Iron Curtain in the cold war served as a political division between capitalist and communist nations on the western side of the Iron Curtain created the North Atlantic Treaty organization. -
Suez crisis
The Egyptian Government seized control of the Suez Canal from the British and French owned company that managed it, had important consequences for U.S. relations with both Middle Eastern countries and European allies -
Berlin Crisis 1961
On the night of 13 - 14 August 1961, East German police and military units sealed off all arteries leading to West Berlin. -
Cuban missile crisis
A direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold war -
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The soviet union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague -
Soviet - Afghan War
Extensive fighting between the DRA, the soviet union and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters -
fall of berlin wall
It was on 9 Nov 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled -
Fell out the soviet union
The turmoil led to the government in Moscow losing most of its influence, and many republics proclaiming independence in the following days and months.