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Cold War and Personal Interview
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Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War.
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The allied response was an unbelievably massive air supply, flying night and day to feed the city.
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United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact.
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The US feared if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would also fall to Communism.
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The Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro.
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The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.
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She was born in 1974, same year as SEATO ended.
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10 Personal Events.
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Enters primary school, same year that the Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan.
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Enters secondary school at Remington School, same year that Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union.
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Graduates from secondary school and begins working with her father as a tailor, same year that Gorbachev announces to the UN that the Soviet Union will no longer (militarily) be involved in Eastern Europe.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise.
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Supporters of Communism stage an unsuccessful coup. Soviet Union is then abolished and Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.
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Gabriela Munoz’s father dies due to diabetes.
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Luis David Herrera is born, Gabriela’s first child, and first boy. Who also came out to be the most AWESOME person in the world.
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Gabriela migrates to the U.S. along with her son.
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Santiago Jose Saenzpardo is born, Gabriela’s second child, and second boy.
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Alejandra Torres Munoz is born, Gabriela’s third child, and first girl.
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Sofia Torres Munoz is born, Gabriela’s fourth and final child. Also second girl.
