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The Yalta Conference was a meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war.
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President Truman promised to help any country undergoing a communist takeover.
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Russia's response to the merger of the French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was to block all road and rail links to that sector. This meant that those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. Food was brought in by NATO airplanes.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed consisting of: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
After much back-and-forth, the Korean war ended.
North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while South Korea was affiliated with the USA. -
Josef Stalin dies at 74 of cerebral hemorrhaging (Bleeding in the brain.) He was succeeded by Nikita Krushchev.
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The Warsaw Pact was formed between East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.
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Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space. He traveled in the Suyuz Capsule.
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A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA and aided by the US government, attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.
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The GDR constructed a wall to separate East and West Germany.
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A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the weapons.
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JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder but there has always been speculation that he was not a lone killer and may have been backed by an organization.
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Nikita Krushchev was removed from office.
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US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon.
This was a major success for America. -
The Paris Peace Accords ended American involvement in the Vietnam war.
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Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th President of the United States.
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A group of Iranian students and militants stormed the American embassy and took 53 Americans hostage to show their support for the Iranian Revolution.
The Iranian hostage crisis ended 444 days after it began. -
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War.
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Due to overheating, an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine that remains the worst nuclear power plant disaster yet.
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Anti-Communist protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China were crushed by the government. The death count is unknown.
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The Berlin Wall was torn down after a speech by GDR Officials.
This was one of the major events in the end of the war. -
This meeting between Mikhail Gorbachov and George H W Bush reversed much of the provisions of the Yalta Conference.
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Riots broke out which resulted in the overthrow and execution of the leader Ceauşescu and his wife.
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West and East Germany united into one country.
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The alliance between Eastern Powers dissolved.
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After the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia formally recognised the separation of Soviet Countries.
This was the end of the war.
