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The Soviet Russians build a blockade to protect their side of Berlin.
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The United States, The United Kingdom, and France sent planes over the Russian blockade bringing food, coal, petroleum, and other supplies to more than 2 million people in West Berlin.
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After WW1 Berlin was divided into several parts one for each the Americans, the French, the British and the Soviet Russians.
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Mao Zedong led an army of communists into china.
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Mao Succeeds in converting China to communism.
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Because of the Soviets falure to keep new suppliers out the Russians ended the airlift in september of 1949.
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Zedongs campagn to take china is so far successful
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The Korean War was started because of North Koreas invasion of South Korea. This invasion angered the (U.N.). The invasion was as the (U.N.) believed a violation of "International Peace".
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The U.N. asked its member nations to supply South Korea with troops and war goods thereby showing support for South Korea.
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July 27, 1953, the United Nations and North Korea signed an armistice agreement. The Korean War was one of the bloodiest wars in history. After the war about a million South Korean civilians were killed and many remained homeless. Over 560,000 UN and South Korean troops and around 1,600,000 Communist troops were killed or wounded.
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the berlin wall was build to divide East Berlin(communists) and West Berlin(democrats).
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people of berlin began wi escape communist rule.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis is when U.S. planes found soviet missiles in several places in Cuba
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president John F. Kennedy is informed about the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, president Kennedy then ordered a blockade of Cuba to prevent any more shipments of arms into Cuba.
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President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev made a private agreement stating that if the U.S. will not invade then the Soviets will withdrawl all arms from Cuba. The agreement was completed on october 28, 1962.
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in 1989 the people of Berlin wanted to escape the rule of the communist goverment and forced the goverment to remove the wall allowing freedom between the 2 1/2's of Berlin.
