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The Postdam Conference was a meeting between the Soviet Union, UK, and U,S,A. The meeting was to decide what they would do to the defeated Nazi Germany.
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On this date 26 nations at war with the Axis Powers met in Washington D.C to create the United Nations
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On March 5, 1946 Winston Churchhill delivered a speech that says "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." some people say this was one of the first announces of the begining of the Cold War.
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President Truman made a speech in which he said the U.S would support Greece and Turkey, so they wouldnt fall into the soviet sphere
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The United Nations voted on a partition plan that created the stat of Israel.
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The marshal plan was a plan to help aid European countries to give them economical support after world war II. The marshall plan was active for four years. one of the main goals was to eliminate trade baarriers.
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After World War II Germany's Capital into four parts going to the Soviet Union,American, British. and French. But the Soviet Union wanted it all to themselves so they shut down all roads and highways coming into the city so everything had to be air lifted into the city.
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To help try to stop Communism from spreading the U.S and 11 other countries signed the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization also known as NATO.
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North Korea invaded the South but the South were clearly over powered so the U.S. was 88% of South koreas army.
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Leader of Soviet Union dies in Moscow
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This war was fought by North and South Vietnam. The U.S played a major role in this war by itts support with the South.
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The Warsaw Pact, called so because it was signed in Warsaw. That put the Soviet in charge of the armed forces of the member of the pact.
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Israeli, French, and British forces pushed into Egypt heading toward the Suez Canal. The Canal was nationalized earlier that year in July.
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The Soviet Union launched the first artifical satellite into space. Only about the size of a beach ball weighing about 180 pounds. On Nov. 3 the soviets launched Sputnik II including a dog named Laika.
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Since it's has been operational NASA has led most of the U.S space exploration. Including the Apollo moon landing.
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The Bay of Pigs invsasion was a failed invasion by the CIA into Cuba.
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On August 12, 1961 Eastern German soldiers layed down more than 30 miles of barbed wire fence through the heart of Berlin. Eastern citizens were forbiddened to pass into Western Berlin. On August 15,1961 Eastern soldiers then began to replace the barbed wire with a concrete wall reaching 15 feet high in some places.
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In October of 1962 for 13 days Cuba and the U.S. were close to war after a spy plane caught sight of nuclear missles being built. After many meetings with his advisors he decided to place ships around Cuba to stop Soviets from bringing military supplies into Cuba.
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Kennedy was shot by a sniper in a presidential motorcade.
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The USS Pueblo was an American ship which was boarded and captured by North Korea. North Korea says that the boat drifted into territorial waters, but the U.S. says that the boat was in international waters at the time of the incident. The Pueblo is the only U.S. Navy ship being held captive to date.
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This treaty was to openly show that you had nulcear weapons.
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This resolution was to find a new reperasentative for China in the United Nations.
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The visit allowed the American public to see China for the first time in two decades.
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These treaties limited the use and amount of missles each country could have.
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The treaty was to end the war in Vietnam and establish peace.
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South Vietnam falls to the communist North Vietnam
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On November 4th 1979 a group of Iranian students took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They held 52 american hostages for 444 days. President Jimmy Carter said this about the hostages "victims of terroism and anarchy". The hostage were released on January 20th,1981.
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On the night of Dec. 24 the USSR sent 30,000 troops into Afghanistan.
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The boycott was issued by the U.S in protest on the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.
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A flight from New York to Seoul but during the flight it was shot down by a Soviet plane.
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This Invasion happened just 2 days after the bombing of U.S marine barracks.
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A nuclear power plant accident in Ukraine.
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The iran contra affair was a political scandal where officails sold fire arms to Iran.
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In Bejing, China the military has trying to get deeper into the capital. Protesters stood in the way then the military opening shot at the protesters.
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Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev resigned which ended the Cold War. At 7:32 the soviet flag was lowered and the Russian tricolor was raised.
