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Yalta confrence
discussion of Europeans postwar recolonization -
Nikita Khrushchev comes to power
first secretary of the communist party -
us dropped bomb
they dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and the Japaneses quit fighting -
end of ww2
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potsdam confrence
2/3 of big 3 being replaced stalin replaced the 2 people -
Truman doctrine
Truman provided an political and military assistance -
marshal plan
american initiative to aid western europe -
berlin airlift
forces decided and ocuppied germany -
berlin blockade
limit ability of ailed forces to get to sector of Britain -
arms race
us vr ussr on how much power they had -
space race
supreme spaceflight capability against us and ussr -
Korean war
war between north and south korea -
Joseph Stalin dies
USSR leader, political from mid 20's tell death -
Vietnam war
resistance war against us -
sputmik
first artificial satellite -
u-2 incident
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bay of pigs invasion
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Cuban missile crisis
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berlin wall
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president Kennedy was assasinated
assassinated in Dallas -
the percentages deal
GB and ussr leaders decide Europe -
apolo 11 landed on the moon
Neil Armstrong as the commander and this was a big part of keeping up with the space race -
iron curtain
Churchill talks about separation of eastern and western countries -
soviet invasion of Afghanistan
soviets took over Afghanistan -
INF treaty
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German re-unification
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Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
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USSR falls in cold war
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ussr breakup
the breakup into states people stepped down from legal positions -
us spy plane shot down in ussr
shot down in ussr airspace president Eisenhower didn't want it to happen
