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It was the armed conflict between government and rebel militias that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and made millions of others homeless. It went on for 36 years in battles military forces.
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The Chinese Civil War (1927–1950) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT), the governing party of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China (CPC), for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into two Chinas, Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan and People's Republic of China (PRC) in Mainland
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"A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion.
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The Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 to provide a physical barrier between East and West Berlin.
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A group of nations work together to prevent war.
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A policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S. Truman giving Greece and Turkey economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.
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The US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WW 2
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The establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine
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NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states and especially the United States and Europe.
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A conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea
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A treaty signed in Moscow by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom that banned all tests of nuclear weapons except those conducted underground.
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Senator Joseph McCarthy was the leading American anticommunist figure in the late 1940s and early 50s.
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the organization was to prevent communism from gaining ground in the region
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When the working class took on and defeated the police and installed a new government, lasting 18 days before being crushed by Soviet tanks.
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The Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.
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The revolution led by Fidel Castro and a small band of guerrilla fighters against a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba.
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It was a war that was spreading through out asian countries that was fought against the rising tide of communism. The years were 1959-1975
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded
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This lead to the war and the torpedo boats attacked USS Maddox
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South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a state which governed southern Vietnam until 1975.
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It was a military campaign during the Vietnam War.
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The vist ended twenty-five years of isolation between the U.S and the peoples republic of China.
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The shredding of the iron curtain
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The alliance of the East European socialist states is the nominal counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on the European continent.
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A nuclear arms treaty
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Chairmen of the presidium of the supreme soviet.
