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The Big Three met to discuss German terms of surrender and post war occupation of Germany.
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The Big Three met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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The U.S. would provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism.
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It was a U.S, economic recovery for war-torn Europe.
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The Soviets block entrances to Berlin and cut off Allied supplies to West Berlin.
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U.S. and British airplanes fly supplies into West Berlin.
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Great Britain, France, and the United States made plans to unify the three Western sections of Germany and Berlin and a West German government.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States and its European allies to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
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At a test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightning."
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This was a new democratic state in West Germany.
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This was a Communist controlled state in East Germany.
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The war was an attempt by the Communist govenment of North Korea to take over South Korea.
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This was created during the Arms Race and was even more destructive than the first atomic weapons.
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The United States and the Soviet Union built up their armies and weapons.
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At age 73, Stalin died of illness.
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He was selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party.
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The Vietnam War was a war to stop the spread of communism.
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This was a competition between the U.S, and the Soviet Union for supremacy in spaceflight capacity.
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This was a military alliance of Communist Block nations USSR, East Germany, Albania, Czech, Poland, Hungary, and Romania.
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This was the first satelite to orbit earth. It sent radio signals back to earth.
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This american spy plane was shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union.
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He was a Russian Cosmonaut and the 1st man to travel in space.
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114 fighters died in three days and the rest were captured by Castro's troops.
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This was a failed military invasion of Cuba.
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Khrushchev realized the need to stop the flow of refugees from East Germany through West Berlin.
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The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War.
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The INF Treaty was signed between the U.S. and The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics to eliminate ballistic and druise missiles.
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The election was a victory for Gorbachev, but it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base.
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One year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany came together again after 45 years.
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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
