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roosevelt and churchill agreed to stalin's demands regarding poland and the united nations -
assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
The united states and united kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to berlin from allied airbases in western germany -
the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the western hemisphere -
North korea people invaded the south korea -
conflict led by fidel Castro to overthrow the government of fulgencio batista -
Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon for the first time -
Israeli armed forces pushed into egypt toward the suez canal -
east german police and military units sealed off all arteries leading to west berlin -
components of brigade 2506 landed at the bay of pigs on april and were defeated within 2 days by Cuban armed forces. -
the soviet union began to secretly install missiles in cuba to launch attacks on united states cities. -
vietnam war pitted communist north vietnam and the viet cong against south vietnam and the united states. -
an explosion and fire that demolished the reactor building and released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere -
destruction of the berlin wall and the figurative Iron Curtain