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WWII ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers
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Winston Churchil condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe
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Asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece.
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American initiative to aid Western Europe
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U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Berlin was inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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The maintenance of international peace and security. Worked to prevent conflict and make peace.
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an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan.
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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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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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The United States conducted its first nuclear test of a hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands
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An American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States
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Suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
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The signing of the armistice ended the korean war
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an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact
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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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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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The first artificial earth satellite.
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba- 1959
Overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista
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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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defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a very close race.
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a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA
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a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic
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a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
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36th President of the United States
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
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37th President of the United States. He became the only U.S. president to resign the office.
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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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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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American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
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The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam.
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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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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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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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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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an American politician and actor who was 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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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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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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the Soviet Union signed the Geneva Accords with the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan that created a timetable for withdrawal.
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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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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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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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Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
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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.
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