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Fought between North Korea and South Korea. 2.5 million people lost their lives. July 27th, 1953 they signed a treaty agreeing that Korea would remain a divided country. -
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
This conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July-August 1945. It allowed the three leading allies to plan the postwar peace while avoiding mistakes of the Paris Peace conference. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. -
The United Nations was established after World War II in an attempt to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems. -
The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting American society and the federal government. The name refers to the red flag as a common symbol of communism. -
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin, which lay entirely inside Russian-occupied East Germany. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. Goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means. -
A military and political effort to overthrow the government of Cuba between 1953-1959. The Rebels defeated Batista on January 1st of 1959 replacing his government. -
The Americans and Soviets competed to prove their technological and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to put a human into space. The United States were the first to send a man to space in 1969. -
Fought between communist North Vietnam + Soviet Union and China, and South Vietnam + the United States. There was up to 1,622,973 casualties in Vietnam. The United States and South Vietnam won. -
The Egyptian Government seized control of the Suez Canal from the British and French owned company that managed it. Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal, a valuable waterway that controlled two-thirds of the oil used by Europe. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the United States. It was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government. -
The Chernobyl Disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, North of Ukraine. 3940 deaths from radiation-induced cancer and leukemia occurred. -
The Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union which resulted in the end of the country's and its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty on 26 December 1991.