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WW2 meeting of the "big three"
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The last "big three" meeting of world war 2
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US would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all to all democratic nations under threat from internal/external authoritarian forces
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Boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas
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The US gives $13 billion is economic aid to western Europe
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Start of Berlin Blockade, attempt by Russia to prevent other countries from traveling their territory of Germany
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US was forced to airlift supplies to Berlin due to the blockade made by the Soviets
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This was the formation of the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Competition for nuclear supremacy during the cold war between the US, Russia, and their allies
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Start of Korean war, between America, North and South Korea
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Beloved dictator of Russia dies from stroke
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Khrushchev was one of five men selected as the new secretariat of the communist party
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Treaty banning nuclear weapon testing in the atmosphere, outer space, and under water
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The theory that an event in one country will spark another in a neighboring country
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Defense treaty among the Soviet Union
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The start of the Vietnam War, war between America and Vietnam
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Invasion of Egypt
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Competition between cold war rivals for spaceflight supremacy
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This caused the rise of communism in Cuba
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U-2 US spy plane shot done while in Soviet territory
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Botched invasion of 1400 exiled Cubans on the south coast of Cuba
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Creation of Berlin wall to separate eastern and western Germany was in us until 1989
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13 day confrontation between the US and Soviets concerning missile deployment in Italy and Turkey
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Assassination of the president John F Kennedy
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Period of time when relationship between the Soviet Union and US were improved
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War that lasted nine years. Group called the Mujahideen fought the Soviets
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Treaty signed to eliminate all intermediate and short ranged missiles between the USSR and the USA
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Mikhail Gorbachev was elected president of the Soviet Union
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A process in which both separate republics rejoined to create a unified Germany
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This was the dissolution of the original USSR
