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The chinese political civil war that ended in the Communists winning
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the United Nations was first coined by FDR
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truman became president when FDR died.
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U.S. first tested their atomic bomb
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Was a senator from wisconsin who claimed communists were infiltrating the U.S. and was thelargest seen face in the cold war
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Truman announced that the U.S. would support Turkey and Greese econicly in order to stop soviet expension and is considered to be the start of the cold war
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the Eruopean recovery plan was created where the U.S. would give monetary aid to european countries to rebuild economicly
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The stae of Israil was officially declared
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the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an agreement of mutual defense between the "good guys" of the cold war and current times
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The soviets test their first stom bomb
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A war between the Korea's involving NATO that ended with no real winner
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trumans two terms were over
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A civil war in cuba and the overthrough of the government and a take over by the communists
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The republic of vietnam lasted from 1954 until it fell tot he communist north in 1975
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U.S. troops invaded and overthrough the government and set up a U.S. backed democratic government
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the South East Asian Treaty Organization was created to block further communist expansion in asia
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a mutual defense agreement between communist states
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A war between North and South vietnem that involved NATO countries (mostly the U.S.) that ended in the North winning
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A nationwide protest led to the fall of communism in Hungary
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The speech declared that any middle east state could request economic or military asistance from the U.S. as long as they were against the soviets
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A unsccesful invasion of communist cuba by the U.S.
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cutting off the democratic berlin from the soviets
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when missiles in cuba were threatoned to be launched at the U.S. and it was the closed the cold war came to becoming a "hot war"
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banned test detontaions of nuclear weapons underground
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an inccident where the USS Maddox firedon several north vietvanese torpedo ships after they atacked the USS Maddox in international waters in the gulf of tonkin
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An attack launched by north vietnam on the south and there allies during a time when no attacks were to take place
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Nixon's visit to china was the first step to normalizing our relations with them
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the last leader of the Soviet Union
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The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km
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the soviet union falls apart
