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The Russian Revolution was when the the Bolshevik's condemed the new goverment then eventually became a communist country.
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The Iron curtain was a boundary that divided Europe in two seperate areas from the end of WWII until 1992.
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The Potsdam Conference was when Britian, US, and the Soviet Union met to discuss terms for the end of WWII.
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The Atomic bombing happened when Japan declined unconditional surrerder to the US during WWII.
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The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe.
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose purpose was to counter soviet expansion by containment of the Soviet Union.
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The Hollywood 10 was 10 famous people that denied questioning from the HUAC (House of UN-American Activities).
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The Marshall plan was a program to provide economical assistance to countries that fell during WWII (Greece and Turkey).
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The Alger Hiss Spy case was when the US had a congressional meeting about spys.
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The Berline Blockade was when the Soviet Union wanted to starve Berlin of all resources to make them suffer.
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The Berlin Airlift was put into event after the Soviet Union decided to create a bloackade. So the US decided to fly resources over the blockade to the people of Berlin
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NATO was formed to combat the Soviet Union during the cold war.
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The Korean war was when Mao Zedong became the dictator of China. So the US and the opposition of Mao fought to try to keep China a non communist country.
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The Rosenburg trial was when the Rosenburg's were accused of giving the russians intelligence about the Manhattan Project.
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The Soviets tested their hydrogen bomb.
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu occured when French paratroopers asended into vietnam for the last battle between French and Ho Chi Mihn for the control of Vietnam.
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The Army-McCarthy Hearings were about a news anchor that was a demigog and created fear to make his beliefs more believeable.
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The Geneva Conference was held to eventually divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel temporarily into North (Communist) and South (Controlled by the US).
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The Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several East European Companies.
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The Hungarian Revolution was when there was a nation wide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government.
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The U2 Incident was a US Spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces when the US was taking photos of Soviet Territory
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The bay of pigs invasion was when the US tranied Cuban exiles and sent them to invade Cuba.
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The Berlin Wall was built to stop West Berlin from recieving resources from the US.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis spanned 13 days. America and the Soviet Union had missile tensions and were both ready to fire everything that they had at each other. This was important because there could've been a lot of deaths on either side.
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The assassination on Diem happened when South Vietnam (US Orders) infiltraded his house and the next day he ended up dead.
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John F. Kennedy was assasinated in his car while in a parade on Nov. 22, 1963.
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President Johnson said the VC attacked the US's second ship that patrolled the Tonkin Gulf. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was a resolution that gave the President Power to do anything to North Vietnam.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was to run bombing runs for a few weeks on VC but it lasted a three years.
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The Tet Offensive was when the US and VC had a peace-fire agreement, but the VC broke it any attacked multiple towns of South Vietnam all at once with guerilla tactics.
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The Assassination of MLK happened at a Memphis Hotel where Mr. King was staying and he got shot.
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The Assassination of RFK happened at a hotel in Los Angeles after he was shot by a twenty-two year old several times.
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The Invasion of Czechoslovakia was carried out by the five countries that were part of the Warsaw pact (Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary). 250,000 troops stormed Czechoslovakia in the night. This is important because the Soviet Union was trying to overthrow Czechoslovakia.
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The riots of the Democratic convention happened after the recent assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
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The election of Nixon happened after President Johnson's withdraw from the presidency. This is important because it disrupted the New Deal Coalition.
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Students protesting bombing of Cambodia escalated after students were throwing rocks at the Guards. The guards used tear gas, fire arms and opened fire on the crowd of protesters. This is important because students got shot by their own country.
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Nixion visited china to create a new relations to create a wedge between the Soviet Union and China to help the US with the Cold War. This is important because this is a turning point in the cold war.
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The ceasefire in Vietnam was signed on January twenty-seventh, 1973. This was important because it marked the point where the US dropped out of war.
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The fall of Saigon happened two years after the US left Vietnam. The VC or the Viet-Cong took over South Vietnam making it a communist country. This is important because Vietnam became a communist country.
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Reagan was elected and his goal was to destroy communism. This was important because it marked the start of the Reagan era.
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SDI was supposedly a missile defense system that blew up missiles when they came near the United States. It was actually a bluff to ruin the Soviet Union's economy to help win the Cold War.
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President Ronald Reagan became close with Gorbachev and talked about removing more nuclear weapons. This was important because the President established a connection with Gorbachev and could diffuse the Soviets.
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The speech to tear the wall down was important because that eventually led to East Germans being united with West Germany.
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This was important in the war because West and East Germany people got to reunite and become one country again.
