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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin or Losif Vissarionovich Stalin, was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. -
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Numberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
Cold War
Starting date of the Cold War. -
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Harry S. Truman President
Harry S. Truman was the United States president during these years. FDR's Vice President. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a doctrine, aptly characterized as the Truman Doctrine, that would guide U.S. diplomacy for the next 40 years. -
Montgomery GI Bill
It was available to every veteran who had been on active duty during the war years for at least ninety days and had not been dishonorably discharged; combat was not required. -
National Security Act
The National Security Act of 1947 was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
COMECON
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, communiqué agreed upon by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania in Moscow. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Treaty of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. -
Eisenhower
34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army -
Juilus and Ethel Rosenberg
American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
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Cuban Revolution
Revolution on Cuba was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. The revolution began in July 1953,[4] and finally ousted Batista on 1 January 1959, replacing his government with a revolutionary socialist state -
Khrushchev
Khrushchev's selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union—an advance that culminated in Khrushchev being named secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, and premier in 1958. -
Warsaw Pact
The treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and mutual assistance conluded after three days of discussions in Warsaw created a belated eastern military counterpart to the western powers’ North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Fidel Castro
Castro led the Cuban Revolution which ousted Batista in 1959, and brought his own assumption of military and political power. -
U2
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
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John F. Kennedy
Commonly known by his initials JFK , was an American politician who served as the President of the United States from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963 -
Yuri Gagarin
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space -
Bay of Pigs
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin wall built
East German Authorities built a wall that encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight. -
1961 F-84 Thunderstreak Incident
Was an incident during the Cold War, in which two Republic F-84F Thunderstreak fighter-bombers of JaBoG 32 of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) crossed into East German airspace because of a navigational error, before landing at Berlin Tegel Airport. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
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Detente
Permanent relaxation in international affairs during the Cold War rather than just a temporary relaxation. -
Vietnamization
On this day in 1970, President Richard M. Nixon pledged to withdraw 150,000 more U.S. troops from South Vietnam in the next 12 months. -
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Black September in Jordan
Jordanian Civil War that began in September 1970 and ended in July of 1971. The conflict was fought between the two major components of the Jordanian population, the Palestinians represented by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) under the leadership of Yasser Arafat and the native Jordanians represented by the Jordanian Armed Forces under the leadership of King Hussein. -
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Bangladesh Liberation War
Revolutionary independence war in South Asia during 1971 which established the sovereign, independent state of Bangladesh. -
Glasnost
“openness” specific period in the history of the USSR during the 1980s when there was less censorship and greater freedom of information. -
Perestroika
“Restructuring” When Mikhail S. Gorbachev stepped onto the world stage in March 1985 as the new leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), it was immediately clear that he was different from his predecessors. -
Berlin Wall Torn Down
People came to the wall with sledgehammers or otherwise hammers and chisels to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts of it in the process and creating several unofficial border crossings. -
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Ending Date of the Cold War, fall of the Soviet Union. -
Post War Nuclear Warhead Spending
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Post War Casualties
Precentage of casualties in the Cold War.
