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The Yalta Conference occurred at the end of World war II and signifies the beginning of the Cold War because ultimately decisions were made during this meeting, such as the division of Germany, that directly caused the war.
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The United States first uses the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima killing approx. 100,000 people.
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Stated the the U.S. would use military force to rescue a country whose political stablity was threatened by communism.
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This was a program the U.S. instated to help rebuild Europe after the war, however, the Soviet union expressed little interest in finding a solution to Germany's and other European countries' economic problems and rejected the plan.
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The Soviet Union cut off food, water, and other supplies to Berlin in response to disputes over the future political structure of Germany.
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The North Atlantic treaty was an alliance between certain countries that agreed to mutually attack if anyone of the allied countries were attacked by an enemy party.
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The Berlin airlift, organized by allied forces, brought food and supplies to Berlin and defeated the purpose of the blockade so the Soviets lifted the blockade almost a year after it had begun.
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Communist leader Mao Zedong forms the People's Republic of China.
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Joe McCarthy begins communist witch hunt. In 1953 the Rosenbergs are executed because of their involvement in a communist spy-ring.
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This war was a result of the political division of Korea.
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The war ends due to a stalemate on the border.
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The Soviet Union's foreign intelligence and domestic security agency
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This was a Soviet Union mutual defense treaty in response to NATO.
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The crisis began with an israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the Sinai region.
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Sputnik, the first earth-orbiting artificial satellite, was launched into orbit.
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Fidel Castro is sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba. In January 1961 President Kennedy tried to overthrow Castro in the "Bay of Pigs" Invasion but failed.
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On this day the U.S. captured photographic proof that the Soviet Union had missile bases under construction in Cuba. This crisis lasted the whole month of October, and was the closest the world has come to a nuclear war.
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This crisis was a clash between the U.S. and Vietnam naval forces. Although U.S. involvement in Vietnam war increased in 1962, the Tonkin Gulf Crisis furthered these tensions and led to a war.
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This marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC.
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SALT I was a a strategic arms limitation talks agreement, SALT II followed it and was signed in 1979.
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North Vietnam defeats south Vietnam after a long, expensive, protested and bloody war (U.S. cease fire in 1973).
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52 U.S. citizens were held hostage for 444 days after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the U.S Embassy in support of the Iranian Revolution.
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A political scandal in the U.S. that was later uncovered reavealing that U.S. officials sold arms to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
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Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty
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This paved the way for German reunification and remains a symbol for the end of the Cold War.
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End of the Cold War
