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The "Big Three" meeting and negotiating what to do at the end of the war.
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Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, “From Stetting in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”
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An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War.
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Created in order to provide aid to rebuild countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union.
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10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and were the given jail time for suspected communist activities.
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America gave aid to Western Europe to help rebuild their economies.
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First International crisis during the Cold War.Since the Western controlled of Berlin was blocked from anything coming in or out, it was a rescue mission.
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The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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Whittaker Chambers, who was a former U.S Communist member, testified in court that Alger Hiss was a part of the Communist Party, but Hiss denied the charge.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
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The USSR officially detonates their first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightening"
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It began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The U.S helped South Korea, while China and the Soviet Union helped the North.
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were tried for accusations of selling nuclear secrets to Russia and were executed for espionage.
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The dramatic confrontation of the first Indochina war between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.
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A series of hearings held by the U.S Senates Subcommittee about accusations between the States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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A conference held to negotiate and settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina.
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Was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellites in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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Started as a student revolt against communism.
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The wall divided west Berlin from surrounding East Germany, but was opened in November 1989 and deconstruction stared June 13, 1990.
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The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.
