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FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the War
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Promoted world peace and cooperation
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Conference between Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to discuss post-WWII; compromise: each side would take reparations from its own occupation zone, divided up GER, created Council of Foreign Ministers, marked the end of wartime alliance
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Dropped on japan Hiroshima on 1945 6th of August, by President Truman
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Winston Churchill gave this speech in Missouri after receiving an honorary degree. Churchill introduced the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the division between Western powers and the area controlled by the Soviet Union
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Plan to help Europe recover from war using American money. Congress agrees march 1948
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-The USA was willing to give advice, equipment and money to any country that was threatened by Communist takeover
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What were the causes of the Berlin Blockade? (4) There'd been no long term agreements about Germany's future at the conferences
The Council of Foreign Ministers discussion in Dec 1947 failed to find a solution
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Strengthens international ties between states to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
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Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China
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The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations came to help South Korea. China helped North Korea
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The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines
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The Warsaw Pact is the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, signed in Poland in 1955
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First sattleite to be placed in orbit
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade
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Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin built by the government to keep East Berliners from the west
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Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam
