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The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4–11, 1945
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West berlin
June 27, 1948 - may 12, 1949
dropped supplies to West Berlin -
NATO - North America Treaty Organizations.
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About 5 million soldiers and civilians died.
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A meeting that was held in efforts to resolve problems in Vietnam.
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signed in Warsaw
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite.
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1958 - 1961 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech that said us and france and britain should remove forces from west Berlin.
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A young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro (1926-) drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers
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The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
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Soviet Union engaged in a hesitent, 13 day military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear armed Soviet missiles on Cuba,.
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The establishment of the hotline to the Kremlin came in the wake of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the U.S. and U.S.S.R had come dangerously close to all out nuclear war.
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the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds. As their vehicle passed at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, wounding President Kennedy. Kennedy was anounced dead 30 minutes later. He was 46.
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The Gulf of Tonkin was passed, allowing President Johnson to take any measures he thought were needed to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive on South Vietnam.
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first man on the moon mission.
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Nixon’s historic visit began the slow process of the reestablishing relations between the United States and communist China.
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Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-II agreement dealing with limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons.
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the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country.
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The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased.
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While the election was a victory for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious defeat in his power base that would eventually lead to the collapse of his presidency in December 1991.