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Meeting in Potsdam, Germany between Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry S. Truman to discuss how to deal with Germany after the war.
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Winston Churchill's term to describe the imaginary border placed by Soviet Russia to separate itself and allied countries from the noncuommunist countries of the western Europe.
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A policy to help Turkey and Greece to avoid their fall into the Soviet Sphere.
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American plan to rebuild Europe after WWII to prevent the spread of communism.
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State of Israel is astabished by the head of the Jewish Agency, David Ben-Gurion.
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Starting on June 24, 1948 and ending May 12, 1949, the Berlin Blockade took place leading to the western allies giving the people of West Berlin supplies.
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South Korea, supported by the United Nation,s and North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, begin a war due to rising tension from the communist north and the right-wing government system of the south.
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Israeli forces pushed towards the Suez Canal after it was nationalized by Egyptian prsident Gamal Abdel Nasser earlier that year in July. Britain and French troops were sent in and pulled out later that year.
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Sputnik was the first artificial satelite launched by the Soviet Union. The Sputnik 2 was launched November 3rd, carrying an animal making it the first to carry an animal.
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NASA, National Areonautics and Space Administration, became operational.
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Two American advisers were killed in Vietnam, bringing the U.S. into Vietnam.
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Constructed by German Democraic Republic. Cut West Berlin off from the East Berlin and east Germany
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Conflict between America, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. The Soviet Union had nuclear missiles in Cuba and America had had missiles in Turkey. The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted for thirteen days.
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North Korean forces boarded and captured the Navy intelligence ship, USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
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Iranian students of the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Life take the US Emassy in Tehran. Fifty-two American hostages are taken.
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Chinese troops open fire in Tiananmen Square, killing and arresting thousands of protesters who were pro-demacracy.
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Berlin Wall falls
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The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was aknowledged. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned the day before.
