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Communists have an uprising versus the anti-communists and the US supports them with the Truman Doctrine. The anti-communists win with the help of the Truman Doctrine.
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Franklin Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), and Joseph Stalin (USSR) meet at Yalta and dicussed Germany's division, the creation of the United Nations, reperations, and the future of Japan and Poland.
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Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of Great Britain) delivers "Iron Curtain" speech which describes the barrier between the Soviet Union's eastern communist Europe and the anti-communist western Europe.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech
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Getulio Vargas is forced to resign from being the leader of Brazil after a rebellion and then re-elected into the senate. He is later asked to resign and commits suicide.
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Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the leader of the peasant revolt in Columbia, was assassinated. Two years earlier he lost for being elected as president.
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After World War II the information of the Holocaust created support for Jews and part of Palestine was given to create Israel as a homeland for Jews under the United Nation's decree, but resistance from Palestine caused them to be kicked out of their homeland.
http://www.theocracywatch.org/christian_zionism_israel_fos.htm
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Mao Zedong declares taking control of China and turns it to communism after a long fight for power with Sun Yat-sen and his nationalist party.
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=74&catid=2&subcatid=6
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Divided at the 38th parralell, the north supported by the USSR attacked the south who were supported by the US fought a 3 year war, ending with the same division as when it started.
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Juan Peron (Leader of Argentina) lost followers when his wife Eva died and he was exiled, but Peronistas pushed for his return and he returned for 1 year before dieing himself.
http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch24u.html
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Gamal Abder Nasser, the president of Egypt, nationalizes the Suez Canal so that the stock owners from Britain and France would gain no money from the canal and instead be under full control from Egypt's government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/26/newsid_2701000/2701603.stm
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Soviet Union sends the first satellite into space beating the US for launching the first object onto space. Later, they sent Sputnik II were they sent the first organism into space, a dog named Laika.
http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm
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Once Batista flees Cuba a military group takes over Cuba and finally on Feb. 16, Castro becomes the prime minister after a hard fought revolutionary war.
http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/ratb/cuba/history4.htm
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Divided at the 17th parralell, the communist north tried to take over the non-communist south and ended divided at the 17th parralell.
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The CIA invade Cuba using immagrants as an excuse to go to Cuba, ended in a huge failure because of multiple mistakes that were made.
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The Soviet Union had control over eastern Germany where the capital, Berlin, was located and to seperate it from the west, a massive defensive system was set up as the Berlin Wall.
http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm
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The United States under President John F. Kennedy received photographs of Soviet missles being built in Cuba starting the crisis, the reaction was a quarantine around Cuba. No missles would be fired.
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During his trip to Texas President John F. Kennedy was preparing for a chance at re-election. While going to an appearance he was riding in a car with no protection and was shot. His killer is still debated today.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Death+of+the+President.htm
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The US sent Apollo 8 into space to be the first manned expedition to the moon and then Apollo 11 was the first to land on the moon. On this mission the famous words by Neil Armstrong were spoken,"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm
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At the 1972 Summer Olypmpics a Palestinian terrorist group called Black September took Israeli hostages to inturn release Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/6/newsid_2500000/2500769.stm
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Salvador Allende (Leader of Chile) promotes Augusto Pinochet to commander in chief of all Chilean armed forces and days later he uses his position to kill Allende and rise to power.
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The US beat the superior Soviet Union hockey team in the 1980 Winter Olympics 4 to 3 at Lake Placid. This was US versus USSR which is the theme of the Cold War.
http://www.orda.org/miracle/
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When Konstantin Chernenko died Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and worked for reconsructing the society and economy. After him Boris Yeltsin was elected, causing the Soviet Union to become Russia.
http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm
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Under President Ronald Reagan the US had an illegal arms trade for hostages with Iran where the profits were sent to contras in Nicaragua.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1889.html
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Hungary got rid of their border restriction with Austria allowing 13,000 people to go from east to west Berlin. Many people broke up the wall with sledgehammers.
http://www.destination360.com/europe/germany/berlin-wall-museum
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Alberto Kenya Fujimori was elected as the president of Peru, he spent most of his efforts fighting against terrorists that were apart of the Shining Path.
http://www.fact-index.com/a/al/alberto_fujimori.html
