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The Yalta 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. -
the Allied leaders did manage to conclude some agreements at Potsdam. For example, the negotiators confirmed the status of a demilitarized and disarmed Germany under four zones of Allied occupation. -
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. -
cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany -
After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South . -
a social and armed conflict led by Fidel Castro to overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista. -
the space race was a race to build missiles for space. it was made to land man on the moon before the soviets'. -
a war between north Vietnam and south Vietnam. -
the Egyptian seized control of the British. the freanch owned the company. -
May 1, May Day, an American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over Soviet air space.
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abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), or Playa Girón (Girón Beach) to Cubans, on the southwestern coast by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, military action carried out in late December 1979 by Soviet troops. -
an explosion and fire that demolished the reactor building and released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. -
when the east and the west Berliner's came together. it was the first step in germen reunification.