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This conference was held to make the decision of how Germany was to be split into 4 different areas to prevent further German dominance in Europe.
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The potsdam conference split Germany into 4 different zones combined of The United States, France, Great Britain, and the USSR.
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The Truman Doctrine declared an active role in the Greek CIvil War.
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Communism starts its spread in February of 1948, and Czechoslovakia was the first victim that fell to Communism, and more will continue to fall.
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The USSR cut off all accsess ports to berlin while the United States and its allies continued to airlift supplies and soldiers into Berlin to keep from collapsing, eventually Stalin gave up and removed the blocakde.
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NATO was ratified creating an alliance between the United States and several North Atlantic countries to fend off Communism.
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Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China.
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On this Senator Joe McCarthy intialized The Red Scare in the United States saying that hea had a list of 250 currently known communist in office in the United States.
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The Korean War was the first major international conflict that followed the end of the Second World War. It was the initial test for the newly formed United Nations, which had been created in an attempt to prevent a future world war from happening, through the use of negotiations, dialogue, and, if necessary, the use of force as supplied by the Armed Forces of the member nations.
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atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site.
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Vietnam is split into 2 at the 17th parallel.
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The Warsaw Pact was formed to counter against the United States and NATO which also brought the term brinkmanship into play.
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USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers.
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USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan to help them.
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Vostok was the first ICBM launched ever. This was considered a big threat to the U.S. as the USSR could strike without even leaving their country.
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The USSR begins the space race as the U.S. and USSR begin their way to the moon. The USSR gets the first step by launching a satelitte into space and this was known as sputnik.
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Khrushchev demands withdrawal of all soviet troops in berlin
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USSR launches Sputnik II to be the first country to put a dog into space. the dogs name was Laika, sadly she died once she got into orbit.
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Explorer I was launched into space, and this signified the space race between the USSR and the United States.
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba as a Communist dictator, and the U.S. now has a communist threat 60 miles off the coast of Florida.
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Soviet Union revals that they shot down a U.S. spy plane.
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John F. Kennedy elected into office.
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Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was the first attempt to topple Castro and his fellow communist in Cuba. Though it failed completely.
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Constrution of the Berlin Wall begins.
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USSR moves missles to Cuba creating a huge threat to the homeland, and puts the U.S. on full alert.
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President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in parade.
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North VIetnamese shoot at US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon landing the US at the top of the space race by being the first country to land a man on the moon.
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Firing between North vietnam ad The United States ends.
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President Nixon resigns bfore being impeached.
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North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces.
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Poland becomes independent.
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Hungary becomes independent.
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Berlin Wall is demolished and East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany.
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania.The decline of the Soviet Union.
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Germany restored to its original state.
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End of the soviet union nd the cold war.