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The economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR.
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Chinese people continued the dipute between a nationalist and communist government.
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Was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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Mao Zedong proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China.
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Military forces from South Korea and North Korea fought, bringing the U.S into the war.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th U.S presient.
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Social movements began hoping to end racial segregation and prejudice against blacks.
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The Warsaw Pact was a treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin.
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President Lyndon B Johnson requested to send more troops to Vietnam to fight off Veitnamese forces. Many soldiers struggled throught the war.
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On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.
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Aended the FLSA to expand the coverage of the EPA to these employees, by excluding the EPA from the professional workers exemption of the FLSA
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The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km (300-3,400 miles).
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Many Germans gathered to demolish the wall that separated East Germany form West Germany.
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With the demolishing of the Berlin Wall, Germany was once unified.
