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Global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 forming the Allies and the Axis.
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Churchill gave the very descriptive phrase that surprised the United States and Britain, warning about soviet communist.
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was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War.
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was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion economic support to help rebuild Western Europe
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At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. U.S. started airlifting supplies.
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North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence against enemy.
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With the success of this test, the Soviet Union became the second nation after the United States to detonate a nuclear device.
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bThe square contains the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in the square on October 1, 1949; the anniversary of this event is still observed there.
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was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China (CPC).
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Republican candidate Dwight D. After his victory, Eisenhower adhered to his promise to “go to Korea.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/dwightdeisenhower
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After the Soviet atomic bomb success, the United States builds a hydrogen bomb.
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Was an American politician and General during WWll who served as the 34th President of the United States.
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Joseph Stalin, 73 years of age, had suffered a heart attack.
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The Cuban Revolution reshaped Cuba's relationship with the United States.
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was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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South East Asia Treaty Organization- To prevent communist from gaining ground in the region.
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swas a Cold War-era proxy war This war followed the First Indochina War (1946–54) and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States, Philippines and other anti-communist allies.
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was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), mutual alliances.
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Dwight Eisenhower , within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East." Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
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Soviet Union launched satellite into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957.
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35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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Invasion to take out Castro.
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Barrier that divided Berlin into four areas.
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Shot and killed by Lhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnfkennedyee Harry Oswald.
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doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
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NixonWas the 37th President of the United States, became the only U.S. president to resign the office.
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Apolo 11Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969 first men on the moon.
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SALTwere 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. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II.
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Fordwas an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. Prior to this he was the 40th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1973 until President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.
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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 Center.
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American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 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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goldThe "Miracle on Ice" is 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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olymThe 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.
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RR 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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Star warswas a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States.
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hRussian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation
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a as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all.
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s 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
