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Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, in Privolnoye, Russia. In 1961, he became a delegate to the Communist Party. Later, he was also the first president of the Soviet Union.
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It was mainly fought betweenthe Republic of China. and Japan. China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germany, the Soviet Unions, and the United States.
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The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939 stated that Poland would be partitioned between the two powers, and it enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention.
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It was the name of the campaign carried on by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom.
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It was also known as the Berlin Pact. It was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan and was signed in Berlin by Adolf Hitler, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu.
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It's primary reason was providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.It allowed the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials to the government of any country
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It was the largest German military operation of World War II. Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union
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It was the military operation undertaken by the German Army Group North against Leningrad.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attcl by the Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany. It was held in Wannsee, Berlin.
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It was an important and decisive naval battle in the Pacific area of World War II. The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength, when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers.
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It was the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed in Normandy, France. This also began the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II.
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The Yalta Conference is sometimes called the Crimea Conference. It was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
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It was a major battle in which the United States Forces landed andt ook over the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
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Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva also committed suicide with him by taking cyanide.
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It was the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to thei Soviet s
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The Potsdam Conference was at Cecilienhof, the home of Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam. Members came from the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States
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In the last period of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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It included the formal signing of the Japanese Surrender which took place ont he battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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It was a replacement for the league of nations, who were ineffective. It was also to promote international cooperation. It was created following the second world war.
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Truman said hat if Greece and Turkey did not get the aid that they needed, they would fall to Communism with difficulties throughout the region.
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President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948 which became known as the Marshall Plan. It used over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951, and was successful.
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The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C, and was ratified by the United States that August.
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The communist revolutionary mao Zadong first named himeself head ogf state and then officially proclaimed the existence of the People’s Republic of China. He named Zhou Enlai the premier.
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The Korean War was a war fought between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force, led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China, on the other hand, fought for the North.
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Joseph Stalin also known as Losif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union. Khruschev was the former first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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It was a political and military alliance established between the Soviet Union andseveral otherl Eastern European countries.
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It was also known as the Second Indochina War, and was also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America .
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It was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union.
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It is known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón. It was a failed military invasion of Cuba by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade, and was launched from Guatemala, the invading force.
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It was a 13-day conflict in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles positioned in Cuba.
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It was a barrier that divided Berlin constructed by the German Democratic Republic. It ompletely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union which left Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state..
