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Meeting between United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union to discuss Europe's post war reorganization. Start of Cold War
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Created in place of the League of Nations in order to avoid international conflict.
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The last meeting between the big three about the fate of Germany.
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competition for superior warfare between U.S. and Soviet Union
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President Truman announced the United States would aid any democratic nations under the threat of authoritarian forces
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American plan to aid western Europe
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Soviet union blocked all entrances and resources to West Berlin
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Soviet forces blocked transportation routes to the sections of Berlin occupied by allied forces. This forced allies to airlift supplies in from outside allied airbases
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Soviet Union's plan to aid in rebuilding Soviet bloc Nations
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A military alliance between many North American and European states
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Democratic state: West Germany
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More destructive than the Atomic bomb
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East Germany
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North Korea invaded Southern Korea, a country supported by the United States
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Nikita Khrushchev was his successor, led to the downfall of the Soviet Union
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Called for a peaceful coexistence between the USSR and the United States
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Political and military alliance between Soviet Union and Eastern European countries
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started due to America's belief communism was threatening to expand across south-west Asia
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Competition for superior space flight capabilities between U.S. and the Soviet Union
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U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace
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1400 Cuban exiles launched an invasion along southern Cuban beaches
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A wall that completely encircled West Berlin, was put up overnight
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A tense standoff between the Americans and the Soviets when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
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Lyndon B. Johnson would take his place as president
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Neil Armstrong was the first man ever to land on the moon.
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The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops in Afghanistan to subdue the civil war and maintain a socialist government
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Treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Citizens were once again free to cross the boarder
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Gorbachev led the Soviet Union through many domestic reforms and foreign policy changes
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The Berlin wall fell and Germany was once again united.
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Gorbachev resigns resulting in an independent Russian state.
