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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China. -
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. -
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WWII Ends
World War 2 was a global war that lasted from 1939 - 1945 although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the worlds nations including all of the great powers eventually forming two. -
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Yelta Conference
The Yelta Conference was a meeting British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin Roosevelt as World War 2 was winding down. -
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Harry Truman
Harry Truman was president in April 12, 1945. He was the 33rd president of the United States, an american politician of the Democratic Party. -
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Hiroshima
On August 6th 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area. Followed by the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th, this show of allied strength hastened the surrender of Japan in World War 2. -
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Soviet Union develops nuclear weapons
The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb was a top - secret research and development program begun during World War 2 in the wake of the Soviet Unions discovery of the American, British, Cambodia. -
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Truman Doctrine
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. -
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an american initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economies after the end of the world -
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NATO Formed
An organization formed in Washington DC comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic pact together with Greece, Turkey and the Federal Republic of Germany for the purpose of collective defense against aggression. -
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Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China with assistance from the Soviet Union, came to the aid of North Korea. -
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Warsaw Pact Formed
The warsaw pact was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Uinion and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam war, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War against america or simply the American War, was a cold war-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. -
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Hungry Rebellion
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian Peoples Republic and it's Soviet imposed policies. -
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Suez Canal Crisis
A major international incident that arose in 1956 from the decision by Gamal A. Nasser of Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal which long had been controlled by Great Britain. -
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro, is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. -
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U-2 spy plane incident
The U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay Of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
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Construction Of The Berlin Wall
A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany which surrounded it until 1989. At the end of World War 2 the victorious Allies divided Berlin, the German capital into four sectors. The eastern or Russian sector became the capital of communist East Germany. -
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Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president from 1969 to 1974. He was the only U.S president to resign the office. -
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was a American President and actor. He was the 40th president. He was elected in