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The World war II was meeting of head of Goverment of United State.
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The surrender of the Japanese officially brings the Second World War to an ends.
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A Russian clerk named Igor Gouzenko escaped the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with 109 documents proving the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. His actions helped to ignite the Cold War.
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Winston Churchill is the first to officially use the term "Iron Curtain" in the post WWII world.
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The Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin
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An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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e served as army chief of staff, the president of Columbia University and finally head of NATO before seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
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A war between the communist armies of North Vietnam with the Chinese by there side and the armies of South Vietnam with United States on there side. It ended in 1975.
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The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.
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A diplomatic and military confrontation between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other.The United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations forced Britain, France and Israel to withdraw. It ended on 7 November 1956.
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World first artificial satellite Sputnik' launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Sputnik (R-7) rocket into 215 x 939 kilometre orbit at 65.1 degrees inclination.
Sputnik 2 was the whole last stage of the rocket, in which all the scientific and measuring instruments were installed.
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A political sex scandal, Gerda Munsinger, an alleged East German prostitute and Soviet spy living in Ottawa who had slept with many of the goverments men.
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Francis Garry Powers was killed in a plane crash. He was the piolate of a U-2 airplane. There is suspicions related to the actual cause of the plane crash. It is believed by some the he was shot down by the Soviets. Some believe it may have been a technical issue.The crash related to the cold war because the Americans were spying on the Soviets to acquire information on the Soviet's developmental progress on nuclear weapons.
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The Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute as US was not in war with Cuba then. Though the US planned to appear “not being involved” in this attack and declared about their non-intention to intervene in Cuban affairs, Cuba had already approached the UN with the facts about the US training mercenaries for this planned invasion.
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A 13-Day confrontation between Cuba and Soviet Union vs the USA. This is considered the closest event that almost cuased a nuclear war. Russia aided Cuba on one condition that cuba let russia use them as a military base. So they did, then russia aimed nuclear missles at 3/4 of the USA. It ended on the 28th of october that year.
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China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb. The Chinese people had finally developed their own nuclear technology.
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The US successfully beats the USSR in landing a man on the moon.
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A war in Afghanistan that lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against groups called the Mujahideen. The soviet war ended on February 15, 1989
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After apporximately thirty years of existence, the Berlin Wall comes down.
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, the cold war ended! Not sure about date or month; just year!
