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Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union.
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Japan invaded, and China resisted with the aid of Russia, the USA, and Germany. It was the beginning of the Pacific War.
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This invasion was one of the main causes of WW2
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Britain's successful defense against Germany's air force.
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Pact that allied Japan, Italy, and Germany during WW2
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Allowed the USA to aid other countries militraies during WW2
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A "Lightning War" that weakened Russia during WW2
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Prestent day St. Petersburg was surrounded by German troops for 2 1/2 years while the people inside the city quickly began to starve and slowly began to go insane.
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The Bombing of Pearl Harbor was an attack by Japan on Hawaii that was designed to stop the US from joining WW2, but it had the opposite effect.
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A meeting whose purpose was to discuss the way the Nazis would handle the Jewish population.
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The USA crushed Japan's navy
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The goal of D-Day was to push the Nazis out of France.
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Conference between Chruchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin discuss how Europe would be reorganized after WW2
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Bloodiest Pacific battles of WW2, the USA captured Iwo Jima.
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Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide. Hitler shot himsilf, while his wife, of less than 40 hours, Eva poisoned herself with cyanide.
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Holiday celebrating the Allies victory over the Nazis
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President Truman, Winston Chuchhill, and Joseph Stalin met to discuss peace in Europe but did not actually write any treaties.
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On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was bombed, and three days later on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki was bombed.
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Holiday celebrating Japan's surrender in WW2
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Organization that was formed to promote international relationships and cooperation
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Speech that basically said that the US should help other countries that are being threatened by comunism.
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The USA gave Europe 17 billion dollars to help rebuild European economies.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- a military alliance that basically says if a country attack one of us, it attacks all of us.
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The People’s Republic of China is what we know as present day China.
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The North Koreans and the South Koreans had a civil war. The North Koreans got help from the Soviet Union, and the South Koreans got help from the United States.
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After Stalin died, Khrushchev took power. His policys were focused on the betterment of the people of the Soviet Union.
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War between North Vietnam and South Vietnam & The United States.
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Name given to the alliance between the Soviet Union and other European countries.
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The rocket used by the Soviet Union to beat the USA in the Space Race
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Failed USA invasion of Cuba
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A wall that divided Berlin, Germany from the rest of Germany from 1961 to 1989
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Russia gave Cuba missiles and the United States didn't want Cuba to have missiles so they blocked any more missiles from going to Cuba.
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Gorbachev resigned and then Yeltin took office as the President of Russia.
