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Competition between the various countries involved in the Cold War. Each wanted to have the most weapons and also the most powerful ones.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in the city of Yalta in the Soviet Union to plan the defeat of Germany and discuss the plan for the postwar world.
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The House of Un-American Activities Committee investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the Cold War.
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Winston Churchill publicly chastised the Soviet Union in this speech, which is considered to have announced the beginning of the Cold War.
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Truman announced his plan to provide $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey.
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This plan aimed to support the recovery and economic restoration of Europe. The US would support any plan Europe created for their restoration after WW II.
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British and American military aircrafts delivered supplies to West Germany.
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Organization formed by Canada, the US, Europe, and the UK in order to provide mutual military assistance during an attack on any member.
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Alger Hiss was accused of perjury and being a Soviet spy.
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First atomic bomb detonated by Soviets at a test site in Kazakhstan, for research purposes.
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The final stage of military conflic in the Chinese Civil War, which lead to the rule of the Communist party in China.
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Many Americans, particularly government officials, were accused of being Communists and placed on a "Blacklist".
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North Korea fought against South Korea. China, the US, and the UN also got involved to provide aid to the two sides.
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The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg began. They faced charges of giving classified military information regarding atomic weapons to the Soviet Union.
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The US detonated it's first hydrogen bomb on an island in the Pacific ocean.
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A battle between French and Viet Minh forces for the control of a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border.
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Announced by Eisenhower during a news conference, it is the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
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The CIA sponsored a mission (codnamed “PB Success”) to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, the Guatemalan president at the time.
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A treaty of mutual defense and military aid signed by communist states of Europe under Soviet influence.
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In the speech, Khrushchev pointed out examples of how Stalin abused his power and critcized various things he did while in power.
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The US and the Soviet Union competed to create more and better weapons and space crafts.
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The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviets. .
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The neutron bomb was invented by physicist Samuel T. Cohen.
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A CIA plane on a secret mission flying through Russia and photographing denied territory, was shot down by a Soviet air missile.
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The first attack of an attempt by Cuban exiles, with support of the US, to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s government.
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A fortified wall that divided East and West Berlin, in order to keep citizens from traveling back and forth.
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A photograph taken from an American spy plane revealed that missile bases were being built on Cuban soil by the Soviets. The US demanded the missiles be removed, or we would attack, leading to lasting tension between the two countries.
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Sinking of a US nuclear submarine, due to torpedo malfunction.
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After the Cuban Missile Crisis was over, the Soviet Union and the United States decided to create a communication link between Moscow and Washington, to reduce the risk of war due to miscommunication.
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An agreement between the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, to ban all tests of nuclear weapons, except those conducted underground.
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General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.
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Anti-communist coup that lead to the overthrow of Indonesian President Bung Sukarno.
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Israel fought against the collaborated forces of Jordan, Syria, and Egypt.
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War between the Communist forces of North Vietnam supported by China and the Soviet Union and the non-Communist forces of South Vietnam supported by the United States.
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After North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked US fleets, the US Congress created this resolution as an effort to prevent any further aggression towards the US.
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While patroling the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, this US navy ship was attacked by Israeli naval forces.
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A series of attacks made by the combined forces of the Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops, on town and cities throughout Vietnam
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The Soviet Union invaded and took over Czechoslovakia. Over 100 people were killed during the invasion.
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Affirmed the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in the affairs of Communist countries, in order to strengthen Communism.
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President Richard Nixon introduced this plan to encourage the South Vietnamese to put more effort into fighting the war, in hopes that we could gradually withdraw all our soldiers from Vietnam.
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The US and the Soviet Union agreement regarding the limitation of strategic ballistic missiles and rules for conducting nuclear warfare.
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Name given to the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1999.
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Established the borders of Europe to be the same as they had been at the end of World War II.
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Prime minister of Cuba during the Cold War.
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War between the Soviets and the Islamic tribes of Afghanistan, who opposed the Communist government the Soviets had set up.
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40th president of the United States.
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US government program with the goal of providing a space based system to defend from attack by strategic ballistic missiles.
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General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
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Arrested and convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
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Treaty between the US and the Soviet Union, on the elimination of their intermediate range and shorter range missiles.
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East and West Germany joined together, and Berlin was reunited into a single city.