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A revolution lasting from January 22, 1905, to June 16, 1907. It brought about political change in the form of a new constitution.
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A nonphysical border in Europe between the countries aligned with NATO and the countries that were members of the USSR that lasted from 1945 until the end of the cold war in 1991
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It was a meeting between the leaders of the United States, the UK, and the USSR after world war 2
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Developed by the Americans, it was only used twice in history. once on August 6, 1945, on Hiroshima and again three days later on Nagasaki
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George F. Kennan, an American diplomat stationed in Moscow, sent a message known as the long telegram explaining why the soviets felt such resentment towards the United States.
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A plan created by the soviet union to rebuild the Eastern European countries into communist nations to join the soviet union.
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President Truman's position on how we should stop the spread of communism and contain it.
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10 Hollywood writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party
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The American initiative to rebuild Western European countries. $12 million was given to aid Europe.
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All ground shipments were stoped to berlin so America collaborated with great Britan to drop supplies in Berlin
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.
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On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union secretly conducted its first successful nuclear weapon test after hearing about American weapons
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Led by the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong, resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China.
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Alger Hiss was falsely accused of perjury and eventually convicted and sentenced to two concurrent 5-year sentences.
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Korea was divided between the communist north and capitalist south and war broke out after the north invaded the south
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of giving the soviet union information about secret military tech in 1951 and executed in 1953
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Joseph McCarthy accused the army of communism
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Signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe
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A revolution started by students towards Hungarian Peoples Republic and its soviet imposed policies lasting from October 23, 1956, to November 10, 1956.
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United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed attempt by US-sponsored Cuban exiles to reverse Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, beginning with a military invasion of northern Cuba.
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The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin.
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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
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250,000 Warsaw pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia to stop Alexander Dubček from liberating the country from communism
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Nixon was the first president to visit the Peoples Republic of China
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Elected in 1981 and served until 1989
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It was a nuclear defense system proposed by President Reagan to protect the country from communist nukes.
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On November 19, 1985, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time to discuss the arms race
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A speech given by President Reagan telling Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall.
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marked the fall of the iron curtain and the end of the cold war
