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Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnams independence from France stating that all men are created equal
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Western Allies carried supplies to people in West Berlin
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President Harry Truman $15 million to help the French and more to come which eventually provides 80 percent of all war supplies
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Eisenhower outlines domino theory where after communist victory, surrounding countries will fall one after another in a "domino effect"
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Political and military alliance established between the Soviet Union and Several Eastern Eurpoean countries
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Start of longest American war with Vietman, sought to be highly race-based
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longest american war which resulted in 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths
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John F. Kennedy is elected President as the youngest man ever in office
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Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the South Coast of Cuba.
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East Germany begins the construction of the Berlin Wall that totally encircled West Berlin
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13 Day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union because of Soviet missile deployment in Cuba
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After 3 years in office, Kennedy is assassinated while riding motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas.
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longest american war which resulted in 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths
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Spokesman for East Berlin communist party announced that citizens were free to cross the country's border
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After 36 years of existence, the Warsaw Pact comes to an end which was a sign that the Soviet Union was losing control over former allies.
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The official dissolution of the Soviet Union
