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President of the Soviet Uniom who tried to democratize his counrty's political system and decentralize its economy which led to the downfall of the soviet Union in 1991.
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An attack iniated by the Japanese against China occurred near Peiping in NorthChina.
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Nonagression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union which divided eastern Europe into German ans Soviet spheres of influence.
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Germany forces invaded Poland on land and from air.
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US aided its world war II allies war supplies.
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Britan's successful defense of raids by the German airforce (Luftwaffe) from July to september 1940, after the fall of France.
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The Trioartite pact included Germany, Italy, and Japan as the Axis powere
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Japanese fighter planes attacked an American naval base called Pearl Harbor near Hawaii
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Meeting of Nazi officials to plan the "final solution" to the "jewish question".
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The US destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.
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The allied invasion of western Europe.
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26 nations from the Allied powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations, agreeing not to make a seperate peace.
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Major World War II conference, that lated from Feb. 4 to Feb. 11 1945, that included the three cheif allied leaders(Freanklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin).
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US seizure of Iwo Jima for emergency landing strips for Us fighter planes.
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Hitler commits sicide which caused his Reich also collasped.
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Great Britain and US celebrate Victory in Europe Day
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an Allied conference of World War II held in Potsdam from July 17, 1945 to August 2.
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An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Japan surrendered to the Allies which ended World War II.
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Declared immediate economuic and militaric help to the governments of Greece and Turkey.
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(April 1948-December 1951) Program sponsored by the US and designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create a place for democratic institutions.
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organization formed in washington, DC that comprised the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Central People's Government, proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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Conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.
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Death of stalin who ruled since 1920's therefore called for the election of Nikita Khrushchev.
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A conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam.
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Series of 10 artificial Earth Satellites which was launched by the Soviet Union and also ingugurated the space age.
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CIA-financed and trained group of refugee lands in Cuba and attempt to topple the communiast gorernment.
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Barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany.
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Confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to War over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missles in Cuba.
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The Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time before it fell.
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Treaty establishing a mutuak defense organization composed of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
