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The "Iron Curtain" was a metaphor for the looming danger of communism from Eastern Europe.
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The U.S's declaration of their policy of Containment
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The U.S plan of giving aid to war-torn European nations to prevent them from turning to communism.
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Treaty containing 28 nations that swear to protect each other,
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The United States goes to war with the North Koreans to protect the people of South Korea.
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Russian Version of NATO
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Fidel Castro becomes Prime Minister of Cuba after a revolution.
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Incident where a U.S spy plane was shot down over Russia after the U.S agreed to respect Russia's airspace.
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U.S's failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro.
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The Berlin Wall begins construction to cut off West and East Berlin
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13-day event sparked after Krushchev installed several missle sites in Cuba.
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The anti-communist leader of South Vietnam is assassinated in a coup.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Mao Zedong's social movement that pushed for communism throughout China.
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Led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge was a Cambodian communist group that took power in 1975
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Nixon and Brezhnev talk about limiting their countries their country's nuclear arsenal.
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Ho Chi Minh, communist leader of North Vietnam, dies before the end off the war.
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Revolution in Iran against the secular government run by Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Soviets invade Afghanistan to prop-up failing communist government.
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Lech Walesa's Polish Trade Union.
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Gorbachev's policy of slightly shifting from communism to capitalism.
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Glasnost is Gorbachev's policy of openness and it allowed the people of the USSR new freedoms.
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West and East Germany's reunification of one Germany.
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Soviet Harliners take Gorbachev hostage and end up destablizing the USSR to the point of collapse.
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Boris Yeltsin becomes the first President of the new Russian Federation.
