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Yalta Conference
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Victory in Europe Day
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Potsdam Conference
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Japanese Surrender
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Iron Curtain speech
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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine of containment was a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold War. United States President Harry S. Truman pledged to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere and forced the US to support any nation with both military and economic aid if its stability was threatened by communism or the Soviet Union. -
Comecon
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Nato
A system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party -
China becoms communist
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Korean War (June 25 1950 - July 27 1953)
The Korean Warwas a war between North and South Korea, in which the United Nations force led by the USA fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also helped by the Soviet Union. -
KGB established
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Domnio Theory
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Warsaw Pact
The warsaw pact was a defensice treaty with eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam (Communists) and the government of South Vietnam (Democratic). There was a lot of Guerilla warfare and airstrikes during this war. It ended with ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. -
Suez Crisis
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Sputnik
sputnik 1 was the first artificial earth satelite sent up by the Soviet Union -
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
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U2 plane shot down
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First man in space
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot. He was the first man to go into outer space. His spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. -
Bay Of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba planned by tunofficial CIA group on 17 April 1961 -
Nicaraguan revolution
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First American in Space
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Berlin wall built
The berlin wall was a barrier built by Easter Germany to keep the people inside western berlin. No one could get in or out of the wall -
cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day "battle" between the US and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It was the closest the Cold War came to turining into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
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six day war
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Tet Offensive
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Apollo 11 was the Spacecraft that took the first humans on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first to humans in history to set foot on the moon. -
Yom Kippur War
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Vietnam is divided
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Iranian hostage Crisis
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Glasnost
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Perestroika
Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party during 1986 and associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform. -
Iran contra affair
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Mikhail Gorbachev takes office
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communist governments fall in czechoslovakia bulgaria and romania fall
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tiananmen square
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hungary becomes independent
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Berlin Wall Falls
On November 9, 1989, a spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in the city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders -
poland becomes independent
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Germany reunites
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warsaw pact ends
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boris yeltsin elected president of russia
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USSR Dissolved