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first major international crises of the Cold War. Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.
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On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war. which broke out immediately following World war 2.
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border.
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1952 election.
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The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
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On Stalin's orders, the USSR launched a counter-attack on Nazi Germany. Stalin died in March 1953, his death triggered a power struggle in which Nikita Khrushchev after several years emerged victorious against Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev denounced Stalin on two occasions: in 1956 and 1962.
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first artificial Earth satellite.
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election of 1960.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.
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Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion.
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The Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight, on 13 August 1961.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare.
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963
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November 22, 1963 in dallas texas jfk was killed.
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John, Paul, George and Ringo arrived for their first U.S. visit with little idea what lay in store for them.
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The People's Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear test on this day in 1964.
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The first Super Bowl held in 1967.
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President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30
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The Tet Offensive, or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 by North Vietnam and the NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
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American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST.
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On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized
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tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam.
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Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
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was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
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There were 5 burglars arrested on June 17, 1972 at the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee. From left to right, the burglars were: James W. McCord – a security co-ordinator for the Republican National Committee and the Committee for the Re-election of the President.
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The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.
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By late 1973, the Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. After his resignation, he was issued a controversial pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford.
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The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups
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President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr.
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was a catastrophic nuclear accident.
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was a major standoff between Iran and the United States.
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The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as 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.
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL is a Russian and former Soviet politician. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union.
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hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin.
