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The Cold War was marked by continuous rivalry between the two former World War II allies.
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Yalta Conference held in Soviet Crimea and Roosevelt accedes to Stalin demand for control of Poland and Eastern Europe.
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Stalin gives a speech saying that communism and capitalism cannot co-exist.
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Communist Mao Tse Tung takes over China and defeats the Nationalists.
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The Hungarian Rvolution was a spontaneuos nationwide revolt against the Hungarian government
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Russia sent the first living breathing man into space on April 12, 1961.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was a major failure.
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China invades India, the Himalayan War, and attempts to claim certain border area.
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Nixon extends the Vietnam War into Cambodia.
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The Bangladesh Liberation War breaks out. The war results in the creation of the independent country of Bangladesh.
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Richard Nixon resigns and is replaced by Gerald Ford as President of the U.S.
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One of the reasons Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as President of the US is his opposition to the “concessions” of Détente.
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For the first time, Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan meet at Geneva, Switzerland.
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Soviet Union forces begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan. The US and Soviet Union agree to no longer interfere in the affairs of the Afghani’s.
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Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics.
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