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armistice signed ending korean
The German Government requests the President of the United States of America to take steps for the restoration of peace, to notify all belligerents of this request, and to invite them to delegate positions for the purpose of taking up negotiations. -
frist man in space
Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia) -
yalta conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference -
potsdam conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany -
truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is the common name for the Cold War strategy of containment versus the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism -
marshell plan
The reconstruction plan, developed at a meeting of the participating European states, . It offered the same aid to the USSR and its allies, but they did not accept it -
berlin airlift
The planes flew so frequently that they often became stacked above the city in a dangerous waiting line -
nato formation
For its first few years, NATO was not much more than a political association -
north korean lnvastion of south korea
The war was a result of the political division of Korea by agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War. -
warsaw pact formation
The Warsaw Treaty’s organization was two-fold: the Political Consultative Committee handled civil matters, and the Unified Command of Pact Armed Forces controlled the assigned multi-national forces, -
sputnik 1 launched
It consisted of six static stations: IP-1 through IP-6, with IP-1 situated at a distance of 1 km (0.62 mi) from the launch pad. -
united nations formation
French recognition of Algerian referendum on independence held two days earlier
