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  Hitler comitted suicide on the 30th of April 1945 in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife comitted suicide with him by taking cyanide.
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  As a consequence of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Germany was split between the two global blocs in the East and West, a period known as the division of Germany.
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  an American foriegn policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegomony during the Cold War.
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  Also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951.
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  In response to the soviet blockade of land routes into west Berlin, the United State begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city.
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  An intergovernment military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949.
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  A top secret research and devleopment program begun during World War II, in the wake of Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian nuclear project.
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  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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  Initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991.
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  Treaty Organization which was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern Europe countries.
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  The first artificial Earth Satellite.