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The House of Representatives had created the (HUAC) to investigate possible subversive activities by fascists, Nazis, or communists in the U.S.
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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met at Yalta in the Black Sea. The purpse was to discuss the postwar in Europe, Asia, and Germany.
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The United Nations was formed to keep peace within every nation/country.
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Stalin, Churchill, and Truman met in Berlin and decided to divide Germany into 4 zones.
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The Truman Doctrine was to give aid and food to Greece and Turkey so they can resist communism.
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The Marshall Plan gave $13 billion in grants and loans to nations in Western Europe to resist communism.
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The Berlin Airlift brought food and supplies to people trapped in Berlin after Stalin blockades to city- hoping to starve them into submission. Started June 24th, 1948 to May 12, 1949.
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NATO is a military alliance joining nations of Western Europe and North America.
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North Korea invades South Korea. U.S was allies with South Korea and China was allies with North Korea.
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Ethel and Julius Rosenburg were charged with conspiring to pass secret information about nuclear science to Soviet agents.
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North and South Korea signed the Armistice to end the Korean war.
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The Warsaw Pact (a rival military alliance) formed by the Soviet Union and its satellites in response to NATO.
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Sputnik 1 was the very first satellite to leave Earth’s atmosphere.
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Yuri Gargarin was the very first man in space.
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Alan Shepard was the first American in space.
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The Berlin Wall was a dividing wall built by East Germany in 1961 to isolate West Berlin from Communist controlled East Berlin
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Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
