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Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
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Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
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Russia tested its first atomic bomb.
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The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991.
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.
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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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The once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR.
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Born on February 1, 1931, in Bukta, Russia. Boris Yeltsin was the first freely elected president of Russia.
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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Block.
