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After failing to get reelected Winston Churchill traveled with president Harry Truman to a small town called Missouri town of Fulton. There is where he addressed 40,000 people withhis famous iron curtain speech.
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The Truman Doctrine would give aid to Turkey and Greece to prevent them from falling in the soviet sphere. The USA would provide money and military aid.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Orginization consists of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It was founded in order to end Communism expansion.
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The Soviet Union tested there first nuclear bomb this test to americans is known as Joe1. The test was successful making the Soviets the became the second nuclear power.
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France succesfully tests there first atomic bomb. Gerboise Bleue was the scientist and they tested it in the middle of the Algerian Sahara Desert.
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Richard Nixon becomes the 37th president of the United States of America.
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Nixon visits China, the first visit by a U.S. President since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
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North Vietnam wins the war in South Vietnam. The South Vietnam regime falls with the surrender of Saigon and the two countries are united under a Communist government.
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The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project takes place. It is the first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs. The mission is seen as a symbol of détente and an end to the race to outer space.
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The United States and its allies boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics (July 19-August 3) in Moscow.
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Ronald Reagan is inaugerated as 40th president of the united states.
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Konstantin Chernenko is named General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
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Gorbachev announces in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that the Soviet Union will no longer militarily interfere with Eastern Europe.
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George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as 41st President of the United States.
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the Berlin Wall was both the physical boundry of Berlin and east germany from 1961 to 1989. It was the symbol between democracy and communism.
