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A war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Republic Party of China.
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An investigative committee that reviewed the Hollywood Ten and other artists during the McCarthyism time period.
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The German Nazi Army surrended over a period late April to early May. They surrended after Hitler and his wife committed suicide.
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Churchill gave a speech at a college campus about how the Soviets were casting an iron curtain over their territory, preventing info from getting in and people from getting out.
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An economic aid plan by the United States to Europe.
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It was the supplying of food and clothing to West Berliners.
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The trials of suspected communists during which many peoples lives were ruined.
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The Rosenbergs were accused of passing nulear secrets to the Soviets. Then they were executed for it.
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The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement against the regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista between 1953 and 1959.
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A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies.
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Gary Powers, the pilot of a U2 was shot down over Soviet Russia while taking pictures of military bases. At first the U.S. denied their involvement, but then admitted everything when the Soviets produced Powers alive.
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It was built practically overnight after gathering enough supplies. It seperated West and East Berlin
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Cuba had nukes pointed at the U.S.
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This treaty bans nuclear testing in outer space, underwater, and in the atmosphere.
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The USS Maddox was fired upon by and returned fire upon North Vietnamese torpedo boats.
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The Vietcong attacked all major South Vietnamese cities and towns during the Vietnamese New Year. They used the pretense of funerals to get weapons into the cities.
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Soviet Russia invaded Czechoslovakia in order to prevent political liberalization.
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Nixon went to China and meet with people from the People's Republic of China.
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SALT I is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement, also known as Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers had been dismantled.
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The Fall of Saigon or Liberation of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front.
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The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement and foreign "Arab–Afghan" volunteers. The mujahideen received unofficial military and/or financial support from a variety of countries including the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia and China. The Afghan government, with the Soviet Union.
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The United States boycotted the Moscow Olympics because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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It was an attempt by the U.S. Government to create a space defense system. It was renamed in 1993. Also there is a Sega game for it.
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The Berlin Wall was destoryed after decaying for a long time.
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The Soviet Union broke up due to self destruction because of coups.
