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Allied leaders, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, all meet up for a meeting and decided on division of Europe
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Soviet Union blocked Allies' section to Berlin
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US's plan to aid Europe
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Plan by Americans to airlift supplies and food to Berlin when Russia blocked Allies forces out of Berlin
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USA & USSR compete in building atomic bomb
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Russia tested its first atomic bomb
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War between North Korea and Sounth Korea
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The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific.
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Died of stroke in Moscow
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started with a strike by East Berlin construction workers and Within days, nearly a million East Germans joined the protests and began rioting across hundreds of East German cities and towns
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Sovient leader after Stalin's Death
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower presents his "Open Skies" plan at the 1955 Geneva summit meeting with representatives of France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
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The Space Race between USSR vs USA
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President Harry S. Truman shocked the world when he announced that the Soviet Union had conducted a successful test of an atomic weapon the month before.
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An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union.
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The military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the regional economic organization for the communist States of Central and Eastern Europe.
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A war between communist North Vietnam and US-backed South Vietnam.
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U-2 American spy plane shot down by USSR
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president kennedy gave cuban exiles orders to invade cuba and lead revolt
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Berlin Wall was bulit to keep east Germans from fleeing to West german, but it was destroyed and East Germany allowed West Germany migrate independently.
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USA provided military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism
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closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the US and the Soviet Union.
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a war fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances – the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight.
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the collapse of the Sovient Union signaled the end of the cold war.
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the first nuclear arms control agreement to actually reduce nuclear arms, rather than establish ceilings that could not be exceeded.
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Chinese troops storm through Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters.
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this battle lead the movement of powerful Cuban armed force, into the west, towards the Namibian border. The fighting in the south western part of Angola led to the withdrawal of the South African, ANC and Cuban presence in Angola, and to the Independence of Namibia.
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Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia after the fall of the USSR
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German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany
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became a Gerneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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The division was stationed in West Germany for much of the Cold War, and participated in the Persian Gulf War.
