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When the prior Russian government was overthrown twice in short succession leading to a Marxist Dictatorship.
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The post-war conference to negotiate terms for Germany
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The atomic bombing of Japanese Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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A metaphorical and later physical barrier between capitalism and communism that arose after WWII
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The Truman Doctrine stated that any nation that needed finical assistance to nation under the threat of the communism.
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USSR plan to rebuild countries with views aligned to them.
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Economic aid to any country that needs it to prevent the spread of Communism.
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USSR's blockade of all of Germany due to issues with anti-communist values.
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The Formation Of NATO, an alliance of non-communist nations.
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The testing of USSR's first atomic bomb.
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A group of anti McCarthyism and anti HUAC celebrities protest against recent events
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When Alger Hiss was discovered to be an communist agent of espionage within America
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When UN an the US aided south Korea due to North Korea's invasion.
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When a family (Rosenberg) were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage.
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Battle of French versus the Viet Mihn that divided Vietnam and started the Vietnam war.
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Televised event of McCarthy's attacks on the US Army
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A meeting to settle the conflict in Indo-China
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Communist alliance formed in response to NATO
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Hungarian rebels rebel against communism and are violently thwarted by Russian forces.
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American Spy Plane "U2" is shot down over Russia and pilot is captured.
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Failed CIA sponsored invasion of Cuba to cause regime change
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Wall constructed after WWII to separate democratic and communist Germany.
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Russia creates Missile sites in Cuba and tensions rise to an all time high in the cold war
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CIA backed Coup Detat against the president of South Vietnam
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US President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, a Communist sympathizer.
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Resolution passed by congress, after having a ship sunk in the Tokin gulf, giving Johnson the authority to take any measures he feels necessary in Indo-China specifically in Vietnam.
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Mass and continual bombing raids of North Vietnam targets
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The cold blooded murder of Martin Luther King Jr
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A Series of surprise attacks from the Vietcong that started on the Vietnamese new year
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The assassination of Robert F. Kenedy
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Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia
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Violent Riots and protesting occur at the Democratic convention, said to throw the election.
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Richard Nixon comes into office
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Brutal shooting of students who were protesting the Vietnam War
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President Nixon visits communist nation China, first steps to cooperation between capitalism and communism.
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America calls for Ceasefire in Vietnam, part of Nixon's Vietnamization.
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The Vietcong capture Saigon
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Reagan comes into Office
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SDI better known as Star Wars was a proposed anti-nuke defense system that ultimately drove USSR bankrupt.
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Reagan and Gorbachev meet at the Conference Summit and begin negotiations that would ultimately end the cold war.
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Reagan stand in front of the Berlin wall and gives a international speech calling Gorbachev to remove the Berlin wall and to end the cold war.
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The barrier of Berlin Wall is removed, the iron curtain is "lifted".
