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This was a post ww2 meeting discussing how to keep peace. They split Germany and Berlin into 4 zones of control. -
Soviet leader, British Prime Minister, and U.S. President met in Potsdam, Germany. The Nazi party was banned and its leaders were tried as war criminals. -
The UN was created after ww2 because the world wanted peace. It was aiming to maintain international peace and stability. -
The Soviet Union blocked the western allies railway, road, and canal access. The purpose was to force western allied powers to abandon their post ww2 jurisdictions. -
NATO stand for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The US, Canada, and several Western European nations created NATO to provide security against the Soviet Union. -
The Korean War was caused by the division of Korean after ww2 and the tensions between the communist North and the capitalist South. The war lasted 3 years and ended in a stalemate. -
A military and political effort to overthrow the Cuban government. The Cuban revolution started because of the violent opposition of the Cuban people. -
It was a competition of space exploration between the US and the USSR during the cold war. The US won the space race after Apollo 11 landed on the moon. -
The main causes were the spread of communism and the cold war tensions. There was 1,353,000 deaths in the war. -
This was a British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt. This led to international humiliation for the British and the French in the beginning of the cold war. -
This was a failed military landing operation on the southwest coast of Cuba. The American force surrendered and were publicly interrogated and put in prison. -
the East German government began to build a barrier between East Berlin and West Berlin. East German police and military units sealed off all arteries leading to West Berlin. -
It was a 13 day confrontation between the Us and Soviet Union governments. Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov was a Soviet officer known for stopping the missiles. -
The berlin wall was a guarded concrete wall separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. It was the first step towards German reunification. -
The fall was due to economic struggles, political reforms, and desire for independence. It allowed independence of 15 constituent republics and adoption of more liberal political systems.
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