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the Hollywood ten
an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its form of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture businesshas rattled the hollywod 10. These screenwriters and directors, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios. Their defiant stand also placed them at center stage in a national debate over the anti-communist crackdown that swept through the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. -
Rosenberg trial
trial between Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were accused to have spied in the american government for the soviet union. -
army-McCarthy hearings
The Army McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings put into place by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations (April–June 1954) to investigate conflicting crime like scenarios between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Warsaw Pact
a defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe, including Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution began on 23 October 1956 in Budapest when tons of university students appealed to the civil populace to join them at the Hungarian Parliament Building to protest the USSR's political and economical domination of Hungary with the Stalinist government of Mátyás Rákosi. -
U2 Incident
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while taking photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. crash landed near Sverdlovsk.