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United Nations formed
The United Nations was established after World War II in an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American support for democracies against authoritarian threats. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood Ten was a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
NATO Formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created 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
The Korean war was between Communist-led North Korea and US-aligned South Korea. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. -
Space Race/Sputnik
The Space Race was a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. Since 1959, officials at the U.S. State Department and the CIA had attempted to remove Castro. -
Berlin Wall goes up
The Berlin Wall was to isolate the postwar allied western sectors of the former German capital from Soviet occupied East Berlin. -
U.S. official enters Vietnam War
The United States entered Vietnam with the principal purpose of preventing a communist takeover of the region. In that respect, it failed: the two Vietnams were united under a communist banner in July 1976. Neighbouring Laos and Cambodia similarly fell to communists. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Berlin Wall comes down
East Berlin had a change in relations to those in West Berlin which made the wall go down and everyone was free to cross.