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Cold War begins, (YALTA CONFERENCE)
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Churchill telegram sent to President Truman.
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Churchill & Truman sent aero-aids to Berlin
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This event is important because it took place during the height of Communism in the world. In order to be successful overall, Communism needed to be accepted by all and have a large number of followers.
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hitler construct around berlin a blockade.
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Was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
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Division between North and South Vietnam was the result of a Chinese proposal at the Geneva Confernce of 1954 which ended the French war in Vietnam.
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Was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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Egypt's president, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, has announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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Castro is a controversial and divisive world figure, lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but considered by a dictator who has overseen multiple human rights abuses by his critics.
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This election is notable as being the first time in U.S. history that two sitting U.S. Senators (Kennedy and Johnson) were elected as president and vice-president
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Known in Hispanic America as La Batalla de Girón, was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group
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Was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that completely cut off (by land)
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Was a 14-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other
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Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade.
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The Czechoslovakian military was slowly showing signs of pushing away from the Soviet Union.
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
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Marks the date of President Richard Nixon’s address to the United States stating that the Vietnam war would be mobilized to Cambodia
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The primary goal of SALT II was to replace the Interim Agreement with a long-term comprehensive Treaty providing broad limits on strategic offensive weapons systems
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. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule
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Known as the Iran-Contra affair, because it involved dealings with both the Iranian government and a group of right-wing insurgents in Nicaragua known as the Contras
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Was under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov who also was the last Soviet general officer to walk from Afghanistan back into Soviet territory through the Afghan-Uzbek Bridge.
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The Berlin Walls Was distroyed
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This declaration acknowledged the independence of the twelve republics of the Soviet Union that subsequently created the Commonwealth of Independent States.
