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Churchill gave his now famous "Iron Curtain" speech to a crowd of 40,000. In this speech Churchill said the very famous phrase that surprised the United States and Britain, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent".
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The Marshall Plan was the united states plan to aid europe by giving them economic support.
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The soviates exploded their first atomic bomb.
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KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991.
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The warsaw Pact was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist States of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Cuba was taken over by Fedel Castro.
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John F. Kennedy was elected president of the united states.
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The wall was built by the German Democratic Republic. The wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side.
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union.
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The united states helps overthrow the Chile government
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United States troops overthrow regime in Grenada.
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Soviate troops withdraw from Afganistan.
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The wall was built in the dead of night and took 28 years. and was built to keep the Germans from fleeing west.