World After 1945

The US president poured millions of dollars into researching his Strategic Defence Initiative which was nicknamed Star Wars.

The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. Salinger.

Domino theory, also called Domino Effect theory was U.S. foreign policy after World War II stating that the “fall” of a non-communist state to communism would precipitate the fall of non-communist governments in neighboring states.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were American citizens who spied on the behalf of Soviet Union and passed important information on the radar, sonar and jet propulsion engines and were also accused of passing designs of Nuclear weapons which at that time were only produced by US.

America and its alliance came together by NATO treaty. America planned one scheme as apart of defence against Russia.NATO treaty was formulated on the basis of defence and economical policy.

During the period 11th to 14th May, 1955 the eight nation’s conference was held at the capital of Poland Warsaw. The countries Russia, Hungary, Czechoslavakia, Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Rumania and Poland participated.

In 1981, 70 year old Ronald Reagan became the oldest ever President of the United States.

The scriptwriters known as the “Hollywood Ten” were blacklisted by the movie industry because they refused to answer questions asked by the House Un-American Activities Committee.