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The Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization.
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The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States
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a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order
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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. 1947-1991
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A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II
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The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin.
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At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany.
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President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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Joseph Stalin dies
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March 5th Stalin Dies, He came to power
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Secret Police of the Soviet Union.
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The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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the policy of eradicating the memory or influence of Joseph Stalin and Stalinism, especially after 1956.
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The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States.
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The European Economic Community was a regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses
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U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
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John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States
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1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when it was destroyed.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war
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The War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.
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To get rid of the short range missiles
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Berlin unified into one city
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The Congress of People’s Deputies elects General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as the new president of the Soviet Union. While the election was a sucsess for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base that would eventually lead to the collapse of his presidency in December 1991
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On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor
