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a conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
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Winston Churchill and F. D. Roosevelt met on a ship off the coast of Newfoundland, even though the USA was not yet at war
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a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended
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Truman proposes the Truman Doctrine to fight communism
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a plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after World War II, proposed by U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall in 1947 and implemented in 1948 under the Economic Cooperation Administration.
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airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
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period of political persecution during the 1950s, led by US senator Joe McCarthy.
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The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea,
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg--sent to the electric chair on June 19, 1953, for allegedly conspiring to commit espionage
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an alliance between soviet union and other countries.
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Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to successfully orbit the Earth
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to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
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Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, became the first human to go into outer space
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Alan Shepard became the first American to go into outer space
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The Berlin Wall, first erected August 13, 1961, was built to prevent people from East Berlin from crossing the border to West Berlin
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the Moon