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The rivalry of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, From the Post World War to the fall of Soviet Union in 1991
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Conference between the major Allied powers leader which mark the beginning of the Cold War.
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The beginning of the Cold War,
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Named for the huge increase in U.S birthrates, coincided with the suburbanization of white America.
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Winston Churchill describes the devide in Eastern Europe and Western Europe upon post WWII
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Foreign broadcast system to promote American propoganda and counter Cummunist Propoganda.
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Policy created to inhibit communist expansion.
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Policies to rehabilitate Western European powers after WWII.
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Allied forces send humanitarian aid to Soviet occupied Berlin.
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Treaty of Western allied nations for the promotion of peace.
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Mutual military strategy of US and USSR to produce more nuclear weapons contributed immensely to Soviet bankruptcy
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Arms race of the Cold War soon begins.
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Mao Zedong defeats the nationalists and becomes the Communist leader of China
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Witchunt of potentially pro communist people of influence. Height of the Red Scare.
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Top secret document outlining U.S Cold War policies revealed.
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First major conflict in Cold War lead to the establishment of Communist North Korea, and Democratic South Korea.
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Government act that enables stringent regulation of domestic Communist groups.
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Supreme court finds it constitutional to dismantle organization which promote the overthrow of the government.
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Marks the end of Stalinism and a dramatic shift in Soviet policies.
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed for treason and espionage through disimissing information of the Atomic Bomb to the Soviet Union
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Policy of massive retaliation upon enemies.
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Vietmen decisesively beat French forces and ends French influence of Indo China
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US backed counter revolutionaries dispose of Guatemalen President Jacobo Arbenz and establish military state,
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Cold War Rivalry for the conquest of Space travel and technolgical dominance.
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War between South Vietnam and US against North Vietnam, ends when US public loses support. Quasi-victory for North Vietnam.
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Federal Act ratified by Eisenhower to construct more highways.
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Krushchev denounces "Stalinism" upon the death of Joseph Stalin.
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The Soviet sattelite launches and sparks the Space Race
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Provided funding for educational institutions in order to promote technolgical research.
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U.S spy plane shot down, strains relation further
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Fidel Castro defeats U.S backed counter revolutionaries
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Fidel leads succesful Communist revolution of Cuba
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Lifespan of the Berlin Wall.
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Greatest Nuclear War Threat of the Cold War.
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Betty Friedman's book sparks second wave feminism in the US.
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US and USSR emergency negotiation system in the threat of Nuclear war
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Nuclear super powers agree to ban Nuclear testing anywhere but underground.
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Lyndon Johnson given complete authority over maintanance of Southeast Asia
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Greatly increased spread of Soviet Imperialism. Rule Coincided with economic decline in the Soviet Union.
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Overthrow of Communist Indonesia which results in mass murder.
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Israeli crushes Arab States and establishes itself as a military power and beacon in the region.
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Mao begins rampant propoganda campaign to promote Maoism.
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Turning Point in US public opinion of Vietnam War, leads to Vietnamization
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U.S Navy Chief Warrant Officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968-1985
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Czechoslovakia attempts to leave Soviet Union, ends in Soviet Invasion and disbarment of Czech leader.
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Nuclear Submarine sinks amidst mechanical failure, speculated existed the Soviets were involved
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Policy ending US military occupancy of Vietnam.
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Ease of geo-political tensions in Cold War
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Leads to Antiballisic Missile Treaty but is not ratfied in 1979 upon Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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Part of Amendment whuch bans gender discrimination in education.
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European "Iron Curtain" established as status-quo, reducing Cold War tensions.
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Communist Rule of Cambodia under Pol Pot, ordered mass killings of the non working class.
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Stalemate war between Soviets and Afghani people, contributed to the radicalization of Islam.
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Contributed to the end of the Cold War and established precedents for Neo-conservatism
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First non-communist union established, foreshadows the end of the Iron Curtain.
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Reagan describes futuristic anti nuclear defense technolgies using "lazers"
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Pragmatic leader who tried to ease the fall of the USSR as softly as possible.
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Policies by Gorbechev to be economically more open and democratically transparent.