History

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  • United Nations Formed

    United Nations Formed
    The United Nations was an organization that wanted to provide peace and security, have cooperation, and develop friendlier relationships between countries.

  • Hollywood Ten

    Hollywood Ten
    10 people in Hollywood were convicted for believing in communism and many more got kicked out of the industry for also believing that.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine wanted Americans to support foreign countries to get democracies. They wanted to do this because they felt it was necessary to help countries instead of let them go to the "bad side" of communism.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan was a U.S. plan launched in 1948 to provide economic aid to Western European countries devastated by the effects of World War II.

  • NATO formed

    NATO formed
    NATO was formed to provide protection for many north atlantic countries against the soviet union.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The north side of Korea, which was communist and supported by China and Russia, had a conflict between South Korea, which was capitalist and supported by US. After fighting, they determined a boarder and its remained heavily guarded by both since.

  • Launched Sputnik

    Launched Sputnik
    The space race was a race between the Soviet union and the US to get a person in space first. The Soviet Union launched the earth’s first artificial satellite, named Sputnik.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    The bay of pigs invasion was a failed military operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, financed and directed by the U.S.

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall
    The creation of the Berlin Wall was to stop people from escaping from the west to go to the east.

  • U.S. official enters Vietnam War

    U.S. official enters Vietnam War
    with support from the American public, president Johnson decided to US forces to battle in Vietnam.

  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    Soviets invade Afghanistan
    Soviet troops entered the country to support the communist government against anti-communist insurgents. They wanted to take it over to re-establish stability.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    the fall of the berlin wall was a significant event in history that marked the end of separation between the communist east and the capitalist west.