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Statement that USA will provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by the spread of communism.
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Eisenhower became President of the United States in 1948.
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The effort to rebuild the war-torn Europe countries. $13 billion in US loans.
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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance under the leadership of Soviet Union. This was a strategy to prevent communist countries to move toward the ways of the west.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization, created to strengthen and unify western allies' military response.
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The first hydrogen bomb was created.
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Soviet leader after Stalin's death in 1953. We start to see a slight progression in the rulers of the USSR.
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The Soviet Union ruler dies of natural causes, and Khrushchev soon takes position.
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Military alliance of Communist Block nations.
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The act of removing the ways of Stalin from his time of rule.
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The first satellite to orbit earth, launched by the Soviet Union.
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Communist ruler that seized control of Cuba. Cuba is now a communist government.
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An american spy plane was shot down by USSR and captured.
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Noted for leading one of the biggest invasion failed, The Bay Of Pigs in Cuba.
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A invasion that was planned by JFK to train and send Cuban exiles to invade and revolt against Castro's communist government. This was the biggest failure to occur in this war.
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A Russian Cosmonaut that was the first to travel in space.
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Wall built to keep East Germans from fleeting to West German, away from the poorly run economy and government.
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USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, less than 100 miles from the United States. The brink of a nuclear war.
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Meaning french for relaxation, this was the improvement of the US and USSR relations.
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An agreement with north Korea that the US will slowly withdraw from the war.
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The survivor pilot of the spy plane U2 passes away.
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Restructuring of the Soviet economy. One of the reforms done by Gorbachev.
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One of the reforms done by Gorbachev to the Soviet Union's government system.
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Gorbachev and George Bush meet and declare the end of the Cold War.
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East Germany opened to the west. Germany was reunified.
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The USSR is now broken into 15 separate republics.
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Germany is finally one again after the Wall of Berlin is officially taken down.
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The communist ruler of Cuba dies.
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Brezhnev assumes power of Soviet Union and we begin to see a better relation with USSR.
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The UN is created to build better relations with other throughout our world and to prevent any type of human injustices.
