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Poland, Germany, and the Soviet Union were referred to as when they were non-communist states before World War ll - when they were communist states after World War ll.
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The communist take power in 1945.
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The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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The system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union.
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An American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war.
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The extension of military and economic aid to Greece.
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In May 1947, two months after Truman's request, a large majority of Congress approved $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
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An American initiative to aid Western Europe.
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The Berlin blockade was one of the first major international crisis of the cold war. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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An intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries.
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The Soviets tested their first atomic bomb.
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A war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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The overthrow of the democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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A covert operation carried out by the U.S Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan president and ended the Guatemalan Revolution.
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Formally the treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance, was a collective defense signed in warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states.
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A conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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An invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Isreal followed by the United Kingdom and France.
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A nationwide revolt against the communist government of the hungarian people's republic and soviet-imposed policies.
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On October 4, 1957, the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1.
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Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's border.
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A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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On October 16, 1964, China successfully explodes its first atomic bomb. China developed their own nuclear technology.
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a watershed event in both the history of chile and the cold war.
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A self-declared socialist state established in 1975 after it was granted independence from Portugal, akin to the situation in Mozambique.
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The troops left Vietnam on April 30, 1975. The Vietnam war was the longest US combat force participation.
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The rising opposition to the somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan.
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a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.
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With the Soviet Union and the US at odds over nuclear weapons and politics, Regan believed that by spreading the love and sharing American traditions.
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Intended to develop a sophisticated antiballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries.
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A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Regan Administration.
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26 , 1991 , officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of teh Soviet Union.