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World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization.
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Competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
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American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion.
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The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.
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A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air.
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An economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world.
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The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid
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March 5, 1953, Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow, Russia
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Khrushchev begins his rise to power march 20th
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military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe
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It was a direct result of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) between France, which claimed Vietnam as a colony, and the communist forces then known as Viet Minh. In 1973 a “third” Vietnam war began—a continuation, actually—between North and South Vietnam but without significant U.S. involvement.
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20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals. 1957 - 175
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Sputnik launched into orbit
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Governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976
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United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
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John F. Kennedy pledged to strengthen American military forces and promised a tough stance against the Soviet Union and international communism.
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First Human to go into space.
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1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989.
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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba.
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Policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
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Period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
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President Nixon resigned from office in August of 1974.
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The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War.
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Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. Instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s and began the democratization of the Soviet Union.
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Treaty between USA and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles.
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Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union March 14
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East and Wes Germany Unite
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The fall of the Soviet Union included ethnic conflict, a lack of support for the idea of communism and economic troubles caused by a focus on arms.
