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Fall of the Berlin Wall
Citizens of GDR were free to cross the border at the end of the cold war. -
Communist win China
Soviet Union occupied Manchuria but pulled back when communist took over China. -
Buffer States of the USSR
Noncommunist states before WWII but after the war is they were
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Atomic Bomb
The bombing of Hiroshima at the end of WWII using the bomb Fat Man and Little Boy with Japanese dog tags attached -
Molotov Plan
The plan to aid and rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
U.S. aid Greece
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Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
U.S. aid Turkey
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
The European Recovery Program (ERP) and aided the Americans stationed in Western Europe with 13 billion to help rebuild the economies of Western Europe. -
NATO Established
An alliance between North America and several European countries. -
USSR gets Atomic Bomb
A secret of the development of nuclear warfare authorized by Joseph Stalin. -
Coup in Iran
Iran's peoples overthought the democratically elected Prime Minister -
Coup in Guatemala
The CIA disposed of the democratically elected president and ended the Guatemala Revolution. -
Warsaw Pact formed
The treaty of friendship between man European countries. -
Begining of troops in Vietnam
AKA the Second Indochina war and this is the longest war that the .U.S has participated in. -
Korean War
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Hungary (Rebellion)
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Suez Canal Crisis
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Sputnik
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Cuba (Missile Crisis)
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China explodes atomic bomb
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Coup in Chile
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Communist Angola
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Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
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Soviets invade Afghanistan
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War in El Salvador
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Star Wars (S.D.I.)
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Evil Empire Speech
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Iran Contra Affiar
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Fall of the USSR
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End of troops in Vietnam