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Guatemala
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chinas civil War
1927–1950) was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China -
Gorbachev
president of the Soviet Union 1988–91. His foreign policy helped bring about an end to the Cold War. -
United Nation
organization founded in 1945 to promote peace -
Atomic Bomb
a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like... -
Truman Doctrine
president trumans promise to help nations struggling against communist movements -
Senetor McCarthey
Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957 -
state of isreal
is a parliamentary democracy in the Middle East, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. -
Marshall Plan
economic and foriegn policy that offered aid to western Eropean countries after WWll -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
military alliance made to counter the Soviest Expansion -
Korean War
conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. -
South Vietnam
a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 -
SEATO
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
defence alliance that aimed at preventing comunist aggression in asia -
Veitnam War Begins
France began its conquest of Indochina in the late 1850s, and completed ... However, they did not have enough power to fight actual battles at first. -
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satilite states -
Hungarian uprising
was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government -
Eisenhower doctrine
policy if president Eisenhower that stated that the United States would use force to help any nation threatened by comunism -
Cuban Revelution
as an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the regime of Cuban dictator -
Bay Of Pigs
A bay in the Caribbean Sea in southwestern Cuba, site of a failed attempt in 1961 by US-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba -
Berlin wall Built
Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall- -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Conflict between the US and the SOviet Union resulting from the SOviet installation of nulcear missles in Cuba -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
nuclear weapon agreement, which prohibited above ground nucear tests -
Gulf OF Tonkin
is the name given to two separate incidents, one disputed, involving the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -
Tet Offensive
An offensive in January–February 1968 by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese armies against South Vietnam -
Nixon Visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China -
Vietnam War ends
ended in 1975. -
Berlin Wall Falls
is considered to have "fallen" in 1989. Border crossing points all along the wall were opened to anyone who wanted to cross on 9 November -
Cold war ends
Wall upon the collapse of Communism in Germany in 1989, the official destruction of the Berlin Wall did not begin until June, 1990.
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