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End of World War II
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Chirchil's Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchil condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe
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Truman Doctrine
Asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece.
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Berlin Airlift
U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Berlin was inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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United Nations
The maintenance of international peace and security. Worked to prevent conflict and make peace.
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NATO
an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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USSR’s first Atomic Bomb test
Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan.
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China’s Civil War
Because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang, there was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China.
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Korean War
Fought between the United Nations and the communist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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H-Bomb
The United States conducted its first nuclear test of a hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
An American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States
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End of Korean war
The signing of the armistice ended the korean war
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SEATO
an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact
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Warsaw Pact
a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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Eisenhower Doctrine
Foreign policy pronouncement by President Eisenhower promising military and or economic aid to any middle eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba- 1959
Overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista
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Francis Gary Powers
American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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JFK
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Bay Of Pigs
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion -
Berlin Wall
a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall -
Cuban Missile Crisis
a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
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JFK Assasination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
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Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States. He became the only U.S. president to resign the office.
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NASA First Moon Landing
Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 (46 years ago). Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later.
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SALT
two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union-the Cold War superpowers-on the issue of armament control.
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Gerald Ford
American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford -
Vietnam War End
The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam.
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Jimmy Carter
American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter
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Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces.
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Miracle On Ice
the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York
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U.S. boycott of the summer olympics
if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month the United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics in summer 1980.
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Ronald Reagan
an American politician and actor who was 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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STAR WARS
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union.
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Gorbachev
the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91.
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Soviets leave afghanistan
the Soviet Union signed the Geneva Accords with the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan that created a timetable for withdrawal.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/Feb/On-this-Day--Soviet-Troops-Leave-Afghanistan.html -
George Bush Senior
American politician who was 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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Tiananmen Square
Student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the first half of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China’s political leadership.
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Berlin Wall Falls
the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere.
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Boris Yeltsin
Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. -
Collapse of soviet union
due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR.
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union