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International organization to settle world problems and avoid armed conficts
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A race in which the US and the Soviet Union tried to match or come above each other's nuclear weapons.
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Charged with the responsibility to keep world peace. It has 5 permanent members and 10 other members elected 2 year terms. The permanent members consist of the US, Russia Britain, China, and France.
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American foreign policy made to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony. It was announced by President Harry S. Truman.
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An American initiative to aid western Europe. The U.S gave $13 billion to help the economy's of western Europe.
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This was an event in where the Soviet Union tried to keep The United States, France, and Great Britain out of their parts of Berlin. Stalin kept all supplies out from West Berlin to try to starve them and having them to accept Soviet leadership.
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U.S. and British airplanes fly supplies into west Berlin. 200,000 flights and 1.5 million tons of supplies were flown in.
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Soviet plan to aid in rebuilding Soviet bloc nations. The KGB came to be, they are the Soviet Secret Police.
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"Collective Security" alliance. Native providing mutual help if attacked.
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He died from a Cerebral Hemorrhage.
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North Vietnam were communists and southern Vietnam were democratic. President Johnson ordered American troops to Vietnam.
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A race in which the Soviet Union and the US to achieve supremacy in the area of spaceflight capability.
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Cia operation to overcome Fidel Castro. They landed 1,200 Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs. This is a big loss and Kennedy was embarrassed.
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The German's started to build the Berlin Wall in August 13, 1961. The wall was torn down on November 9, 1989.
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USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba ships carrying missiles headed for Cuba. President Kennedy orders USA to blockade Cuban ports. Khrushchev agreed to turn hsips around and Kennedy agreed not to invade Cuba
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An American U-2 spy plan was shot down while he crossed the Soviet Union. The US was spying on the Soviet Union, as they were lead to admit this considering that the Soviet Union had the pilot and the plane intact.
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A meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. They discussed how the land of Germany should be split up.
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Allied Powers divided Germany into four different zones. Soviet Union controlled east Germany, allies controlled west Germany.
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Gorbachev and President George Bush met declaring end to Cold War.
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Mikhail Gorbachev announced glasnost, which is freedom of expression for Soviet citizens. It eased harsh treatment of opponents of Soviet system.
