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In 1961 he became a delecate for the Communist Party in Russia. He was the first presidant of the Soviet Union in 1990. He won the Nobel Peace Prize the same year.
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Nonagreesion pact signed by Germany and Soviet Union a few days before the beginning of WWII. It divided Eastern Europe in half for Germany and Soviet Union.
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The beginning of WWII when German forces invaded Poland by land and air in an attempt to regain land and take control.
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A system to which the United States aided their allies during WWII. Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted this.
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The German air force conducted and air raid on Great Britain. The Germans were not successful.
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A pact signed in Berlin, Germany which set up the Axis powers for WWII. Japan, Germany, and Italy signed.
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The Japenese bomb Pearl Harbor, which is near Hawaii. This bombing cause the United States to officially fight in WWII.
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A Nazi conference to plan the "final solution". This conference marked a turning point for the Nazis towards the Jews.
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A battle fought almost entirley with aircrafts.
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Allied forces stormed onto the beaches of Normandy, France which helped liberated France. Fun fact: my great grandpa was apart of D-Day and he took apart Nazi rifles and sent them home. We now have them in our computer room. There are six.
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Major WWII conference involving the three cheif Allies. There they planned a final defeat and occupation of Germany.
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An island off the coast of Japan where U.S troops invaded in the last phases of WWII. The island was important because, if successfully invaded, could be a base for U.S fighter planes. They were successful.
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In his bunker under Berlin, Hitler swallowed a cyanide capsule and shoots himself in the head.
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The day in history that marked the allies winning WWII
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An Allied conference held in Berlin with the US, Britain, and Soviet Union. This conference discussed peace settlements.
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A bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan. It was dropped by the United States and it ultimatley ended WWII when it cause Japan to surrender.
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A second multipurpose organization established to maintain peace, security, and friendly realtions throughout the world.
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Truman decides to send military and economic aid to Greece.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established at the end of the Cold War .It is a militry alliance based off of the treaty signed the same day the organization was established.
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A war between North and South Korea in which 2.5 million people lost their lives. China sided with North Korea while the United Nations, with U.S mainly, sided with South Korea.
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He became the premier of the Soviet Union after Stalin passed. He was originally the secretary of the Soviet nion communist party.
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The treart established a unified military command
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The Vietnam war lasted for 20 years. It was a battle between the North (communists) and the allied South.
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Sputnik was a satellite launched by the Soviet Union
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The invasion of Cuba by the United States.
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A series of concrete walls seperating East Berlin from West. The wall was taken down on November 9, 1989.
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A crisis that almost brought the Soviet Union and the United States. The U.S feared because there were Soviet armed missiles in Cuba.
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The Soviet Union splits into commonwealth of states.
