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A meeting between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin Roosevelt to discuss how to rebuild Europe after war.
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The first Atomic Bomb was successfully tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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The Potsdam Conference was held in Germany between three participants: Joseph Stalin, Clement Attlee, and Harry Truman.
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American dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city.
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The UN is an international organization founded in 1945 whose purpose was the conservation of world peace as a response to WWII.
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Winstons gave a speech about the "Iron Curtain" that symbolized the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas between communist countries and the rest of the world.
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Truman established the Truman Doctrine to prevent Communism from spreading by providing aids and supports to nations that were threatened by Communism.
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A program sponsored by the United States to provide financial aids and other initiatives to Western Europe countries after WWII.
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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union decided to block off West Germany to Berlin.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization: a military alliance of various nations.
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Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's of China and resulted in opened warfare between Communist and Nationalist.
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North Korea invaded South Korea for more communism control.
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The Hydrogen Bomb was a more powerful Bomb than the Atomic Bomb with a large fusion portion of hydrogen isotopes: this causes a bigger boom.
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The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was formed to help ensure stability to Southeast Asia and prevent the spread of communism.
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A military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern countries.
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The Sputnik was the first satellite to be successfully put into orbit around Earth.
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North Vietnam tried to invade South Vietnam to gain control over the government and curve the country into Communism.
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Americans carried out a failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro.
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A wall that separates the East half of Berlin and the West side of Berlin.
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A confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Cuba. It was regarded as the closest the world ever came to a nuclear war.
