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The Yalta Peace Conference was the second wartime meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The meeting that took place in Potsdam, Germany with the Big Three-Joseph Stalin, Winston Chruchill, and Harry Truman.
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Also known as the European Recovery Plan. The purpose of The Marshall Plan was to raise money for Europe and aid them in recovering. The plan was anounced on June 5, 1947.
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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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US soldiers could not get the supplies they needed because the Berlin Blockade closed all points of entry. The only way they could get supplies is through the Berlin Airlift where the United States dropped supplies from the sky.
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President Harry Trumann signed an executive order that desegregated the military and let African-Americans fight in the war.
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This the first time the Soviet Union had tested or even used an atomic bomb.
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The Chinese Communist Party's drive to power since it was founded in 1921 and was the second part of the Chinese Civil War.
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North Korea invaded South Korea, which prompted the United States to help a democratic country from being over run by Communism.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.
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It was a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court that ended federal tolerance of racial segregation.
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Emmett Till was a 14 year old male who was murdered for flirting with a white cashier at a grocery store.
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A period of time when African-Americans refused to ride the bus due to segregation and forcing them to ride in the back of the bus.
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When the act was enacted and interstate construction began.
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The Little Rock Nine enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, a formerly all-white school.
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Sputnik I was launched into space and was the first artificial Earth satellite.
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John F. Kennedy is elected president at the age of 43 and is the youngest president and the first Catholic president.