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The Russian Revolution was when a group called the Bolsheviks overthrew the leader Tsar Nicholas II. It was led by Vladimir Lenin.
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This conference was to determine the fate of Europe and to bring the Soviet Union in the war against Japan
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Toward the end of the war between the U.S and Japan we had a weapon that could end the war. This was the atomic bomb and we dropped it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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This was the line between the western allies and the soviets. It was given this name in a speech by Winston Churchill
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The Molotov Plan was created by the Soviet Union as a way of aid to rebuild the counties in Eastern Europe
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10 Hollywood actors denied to answer questions from HUAC. Also growing hysteria in america.They were blacklisted for supposed communist affiliation.
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The Truman doctrine was an american foreign policy to stop the spread of the Soviet Union
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This was a U.S strategy to provide aid in rebuilding some European countries after the war, making sure they don't fall to communism
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The Soviet Union blocked off Berlin in response to the U.S creating a new currency in West Germany.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance formed between the US and Western European countries
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Joseph Stalin and the Soviets developed a nuclear bomb and on August 29, 1949 they tested it.
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The Berlin Airlift was the US response to the Berlin Blockade. We would drop any needed supplies and even candy for the kids.
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Alger Hiss was an American Government official who was accused of being a Soviet Spy, raising the hysteria between US people.
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The Korean War was a product of the Cold War, Vietnam split and soon there was a war between North and South Vietnam.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were US citizens that were accused and convicted of spying, they were later killed
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The Army-McCarthy hearings were a set of hearings that exposed McCarthy for false accusations of communist spies in the US
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Battle between French and Viet Minh forces to control a small mountain. Big loss for France
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The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War.
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The Warsaw Pact was an alliance with The Soviet Union, Poland and seven Soviet satellite states. This opposed NATO
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The Hungarian Revolution was an uprising following a speech given by soviet leader Nikita Krushchev.
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A U2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace. This raised tension in the Cold War
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba by the US.
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The Berlin Wall was a concrete wall that physically and ideologically divided East and West Berlin.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the Soviets moved missiles into Cuba. This scared the US
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Diem was the president of South Vietnam. He was not liked because he stayed to himself and had little sympathy for the poor. He was later captured and killed.
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President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was when congress gave President Johnson authorization to take any measures necessary to "protect ourselves"
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This was an attack by the Viet Cong and North Vietnam against the South Vietnam and US army. Campaign of surprise attacks
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Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader who was assassinated April 4, 1968 while he was staying in a hotel in Memphis
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Robert F Kennedy (brother of JFK) was a presidential candidate that was murdered in Los Angeles. He was 42
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5 countries in the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia, 137 civilians were killed, 500 seriously wounded
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At a democratic convention thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters battled the police
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Operation Rolling Thunder was a bombing campaign by the US against North Vietnam. This lasted from March 2, 1965 to November 2, 1968
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Richard Nixon was the 46th president of the US. He was elected in 1968
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Many students were protesting at Kent State, 4 students ended up dead after being shot by Ohio National Guard
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President Nixon visits with China, this was an important move in strengthening our ties with the Chinese.
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During the war in Vietnam a ceasefire was called which is a temporary stoppage of war on January 28, 1973
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Saigon, capital of South Vietnam, was captured by the North Vietnam powers. This then lead to the infamous Helicopter evacuation.
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Ronald Reagan who was an ex-actor and part of the Hollywood 10, was elected in 1981 and was the 40th president of the US
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SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) was a defense plan of Satellites orbiting the earth that could detect missiles and shoot them down with lasers.
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The meeting of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, Switzerland. Talks of the arms race.
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This speech was given by President Reagan in West Berlin to tear down the Berlin wall. Giving freedom to those in East Berlin
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The Berlin Wall was destroyed in 1989. Giving freedom to those in the strict area of East Berlin. Emotional pictures of people running to freedom soon came.
