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Yalta Conference
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Victory in Europe Day
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Postdam Conference
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Iron Curtain speech
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Japanese Surrender
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Truman Doctrine
Harry S. Truman asked Congress for 400 million dollars for military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
" the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control." The soviets did this so that West Berlin wouldnt be able to get supplies that they need but the US used airplanes and dropped food, and supplies. -
Marshal Plan
asked for the United States provide help to restore the building of the postwar -
Comecon Created
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Nato Established
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Nato Established
Military alliance that US was a part of. -
China becomes communists
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Korean War
The War ended July-27-1953. North Korea invaded South Korea. North Korea was winning then the US started to help then South Korea was winning, China felt threatened so they helped North Korea. -
KGB established
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Vietnam is divided
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Domino theory
The US was scared that the Communists would be able to take over and cause a domino effect. -
Warsaw Pact
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Vietnam War
The war ended april 30 1975. North Vietnam allied with communists fought against South Vietnam allied with the US -
Suez Crisis
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Sputnik
"each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites" first one launched by the USSR -
Castro Castro Takes Over Cuba
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U2 spy plane shot down
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First man in space
Soviets launched the first man into space -
Bay of Pigs
The US send 1500 Cubans into the Bay of Pigs to take over Castro but they lost, this was located in Bay of Pigs -
First American in Space
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Berlin Wall Built
The Berlin wall was so people from East Berlin couldn't escape and cross to West Berlin -
Cuba Missle Crisis
Cuba wanted protection for the USSR, so USSR said O,K in exchanged they can store there missiles in Cuba -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
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6 day war
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Tet offensive
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Apollo 11 Lands on the moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the flight -
yom kippur war
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Nicaraguan Revolution
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
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Glasnost
"the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985." -
Mikhail Gorbachev takes office
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Perestroika
"perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency", -
Iran-Contra affair
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Tiananmen Square
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Hungary gains independence
I dont know that exact date only the year -
Poland becomes independent
Couldn't find the exact date only year. -
Berlin Wall falls
East German Communist Party let the citizens cross the border whenever they wanted to. -
Communists governements in czechoslovakia,Romania,Bulgaria fall Boris yeltsin elected persident of Russia
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Germany reunited
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warsaw pact ends
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USSR dissolved