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STALIN DIES
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U.S. PUEBLO INSIDENT
North Korea stated that Pueblo strayed into their territorial waters but the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident. -
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COLD WAR
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potsdam comference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof at the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern in Potsdam occupied Germany from 17 July to 2 August 1945. -
IRON CURTAIN
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
The Truman Doctrine was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech on March 12 1947 which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere. -
MARSHALL PLAN
President Truman signed the act that became known as the Marshall Plan Over the next four years Congress appropriated $13.3 billion for European recovery. -
berlin air lift
By the spring of 1949 the airlift was clearly succeeding and by April it was delivering more cargo than had previously been transported into the city by rail. -
FORMATION OF NATO
The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
SUEZ CRISIS
The attack followed the President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez the Canal after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam which was in response to Egypt's new ties with the Soviet Union and recognizing the People's Republic of China during the height of tensions between China and Taiwan. -
sputnik 1 and sputnik 2
Engineering and biological data were transmitted using the telemetry system which would transmit data to Earth for a 15 minute period during each orbit -
nasa is formed
It may be argued that NASA has become the world's premier agent for exploration by carrying on in the new ocean of the outer space a long tradition of expanding the physical and mental boundaries of humanity. -
BERLIN WALL CONSTRUCTED
The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
cuban missile crisis
The thirteen days were the most dangerous period of the Cuban missile then crisis begin the President Kennedy and principal foreign policy and national defense officials are briefed 2 findings Discussions begin on how to respond to the challenge -
KENNEDY IS ASSASSINATED
the president was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife in Texas the Governor John Connally and Connally's wife in a presidential motorcade. -
NIXON VISITS CHINA
Richard Nixon's in 1972 he visit the People's Republic of China it was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States (U.S.) and the People's Republic of China. -
SOUTH BIETNAM FALLS
Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War. -
IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
a grup of iranean students that were belonging to the Muslim and student followers of the imam's line who were supporting the iranian Revolution took over the US Embasy in theran. -
U.S. INVADES GRENADA
The date of the invasion is now a national holiday in Grenada called Thanksgiving Day and the Point Salines International Airport was renamed in honor of the Prime Minister Maurice Bishop no 10 -
chenobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster is the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of cost and resulting so many deaths and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event. -
DISSOLUTION OF THE SOLVIET UNION
The increasing political unrest led the establishment of the Soviet military and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to attempt a coup d'état to oust Mikhail Gorbachev and re-establish a strong central regime in August 1991
