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FDR, Churchill & Stalin get totgether to discuss total surrender of Germany and post-war planning
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Stalin, Churchill, and Truman meet to discuss the terms to end WW2 & agree that Russia will invade Berlin
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Germany was conquered in the end of WW2 and divided by Russia, France, Britian and the U.S.
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30,000 U.S. troops left in Iran after Tehran conference while Britain & USSR removed their troops
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Churchill gives infamous speech naming communism as the 'iron curtain' spreading across europe and asia
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US gave $400 mil in military and economic assistance to Greece & Turkey because they couldn't directly assist them any longer
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Foreign Policy to prevent the spread of communism, Truman said he would contain the USSR threats of communism to Greece & Turkey
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Plan to help rebuild Europe post WW2, U.S. gave $13 mil divided across 16 different coutnries
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Berlin had 4 reions & Stalin blocked all roads inside and around Berlin isolating it. American & British troops gave supplies by air, but Stlain stopped the blockade by 1949
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North Atlantic Treay Organization, or NATO, was made to help protect non communist countries to avoid spread. NATO included: Belgium, Britain, Italy, Iceland, Luxembourg, United States, Canada, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway & Portugal
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Russia makes their first atomic bomb, faster than the U.S. had. This begins the nuclear race
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USSR and China begin to get similar political views & agree to work together under communism due to China's civil war
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Declaring how fast & powerful the USSR was growing in power over Europe
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U.S. first loss. Civil war between North & South Korea,
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Eisenhower presents the idea of getting so close to war or blowing the enemy up that they back up but you won't actually have to do it
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Fidell Castro tried to overthrow the Cuban but was arrested, when released he again tried to overthrow the government with a group of followers in December 1956
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soviet NATO, includes: Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia,Bulgaria & USSR
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U.S. troops go to help south vietnamese fight against vietcong, under Eisenhower
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JFK & CIA train Cuabn refugees to fight against Castro's dictator government with no US backup, it was a huge fail & most of the Cubans died before they even got 10 ft on shore.
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Barrier dividing Berlin to keep East & West Germany seperate
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JFK recieved info on the Russian missiels placed in Cuba, which were removed in late October
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Chairman in West Berlin, after being mayor
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Plan to withdraw US troops from Vietnam
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normalization of East & West Germany
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The deterioration between china & the USSR between 1960-1989. This was the dterioration of their political and ideological relations
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Nixon & Brezhnez sign SALT 1 limiting the USSR & U.S. number of nuclear missiles
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rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front
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USSR enters Afghanistan to provoke pro communism members. US helped to train mujahdeens, later leading to Taliban taking over Afghanistan
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Brezhnev & Carter signed SALT 2 further militing both Nations nuclear missiles, both active and non active
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Martial Law puts highest ranking military officer in top government power
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Regans plan to develope the space race to be able to stop Russian missiels before they could get to US by a series of lasers and satellites
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US invades Grenada due to threat of Marxist views
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Gorbachev(USSR) begins democratic government patterns in Russia
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'Reconstruction' of the political & economic standards and views set by communism into more democratic views
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East Berlin rep. announced the tightening of the relations between East & West Germany, and that people were free to cross over to either side
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Anti-Gorbachev coup attempted but did not work
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Declaration 142-H said that all Soviet republics were now free, leading to fall of USSR
