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This was a press conference between FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin concerning decisions of postwar. This took place in Crimea.
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Stalin, Churchill, and Truman meet together in Potsdam, Germany to decide concepts at the end of World War II. Allied leaders meet every summer at this conference to continue their discussion.
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This was the first crisis that took place in the Cold War nationwide. The Soviet Union blocked all travel oppurtunities of the Western Allies.
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In response to the Berlin Blockade, the Western Allies created the Berlin airlift to transfer supples to the poeple in West Berlin.
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This was a program in which helped recovered Europe after the war. Also known as the European Recovery Program, this plan brought in over $13 million to finance Europe's damange.
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President Truman was told that if he did not desegregate his armed forces, African-Americans will refuse to take part in the armed forces. Executive Order 9981 was passed in order of this situation.
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At a distant site, the USSR detonate their first atomic bomb and names it "First Lightnin". To calculate the damage of the bomb, they create buildings and such to be destroyed.
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On this date, Mao Zedong established the People's Repiblic of China. This announcment declared the end of the civil war between the Chinese Communists Party and the Nationalists Party.
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The war began when 75,000 soldiers from North Korean's Army incavaded the Western Republic of Korea. This was the first military action of the Cold War.
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The time period in which he was president.
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These were a series of hearings by the US to investigate conflict between the US Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Court case implying seperate public schools for black and white citizens to be unconstitutional.
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Till was a fourteen year old boy who was murdered for "flirting with a white woman" at a supermarket.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for declining her seat to a white person. The US Supreme Court declared that segregated bussed were unconstitutional.
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According to Eisenhower, this act will eliminate unsafe raods and traffic jams to keep travel safe.
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He sent these troop to help the Vietnamese after the French had been defeated.
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The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African-Americans that were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Followed, the Little Rock Crisis in which students were not allowed to enter segregated schools.
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Sputnik 1 was the first Earth satallite launched by Russia.
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John F. Kennedy became president of the United States.
