THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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The Bay of Pigs
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The Korean War
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The Red Scare
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The Berlin Airlift
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Detailed explanation-1: -Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was a little-known junior senator from Wisconsin until February 1950 when he claimed to possess a list of 205 card-carrying Communists employed in the U.S. Department of State.
Detailed explanation-2: -He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government. The name refers to the red flag as a common symbol of communism.