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After years of conflict, in one of the biggest wars in history, WW2 was officially over.
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The United Nations is still around today and they help solve issues and differences between nations to avoid conflict.
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Churchill delivered a speech to people in the US and he warned us of the iron curtain that the soviet union formed along with their intentions to spread communism. This was a wake up call for the US and we later got more involved in stopping the spread of communism
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The Truman doctrine was made to stop communist from spreading in turkey and greece
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US money to rebuild Europe after WW2
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The US started the Berlin Airlift to provide germans with supplies they needed when the Soviets cut off all supply lines to Berlin.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to ally Capalistic countries against communist.
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The USSR tested their first Atomic Bomb.
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Chinese Communist and Nationalist party fought and the commies prevailed
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Communist north backed by china against democratic south backed by US.
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The US tested the first H-BOMB which was many times stronger than an atomic bomb.
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Eisenhower elected US president until 1961.
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Stalin DIed.
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Korean war ended in a split between north and south korea
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A Southeast Asian alliance like NATO to contain communism.
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The warsaw pact was an alliance of communist countries to oppose NATO.
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The US fought a war in Vietnam that ended in the US withdrawing troops.
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We would assist the Middle East against communist.
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Russian's launched the first satellite into space and began the Space race with the US.
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Fidel Castro came into power in Cuba in 1959.
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US pilot gary powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down in soviet airspace during a reconnasance mission
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John F. Kennedy was elected president and served until he was assassinated.
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Bay of Pigs was a failed US backed invasion of Cuba.
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Soviets built the berlin wall to separate East and West Berlin.
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The US came the closer than ever before to a nuclear war when we learned that the Soviets supplied Cuba with a Nuke pointed at the US.
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While taking part in a parade President Kennedy was shot in the head and killed.
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Johnson became President after the assassination of JFK. In 1963.
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mass destruction by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
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Nixon became President in 1969 and is the only president to resign.
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The US beat the USSR having the first man on the moon
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The US and USSR agreed to limiting anti- missile defenses to keep nuclear war a threat and a deter.
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Gerald Ford became president in 1974.
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Jimmy became President of the US in 1977.
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The USSR sent in 1000 troops into Afghanistan and asumed control over a large portion of the country.
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US beat USSR in hockey.
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The US said that we would boycott the 1980 summer olympics in moscow if they did not remove troops in Afghanistan within one month.
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Reagan became the US president.
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We wanted to build sophisticated anti-ballistic defenses for the country.
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Gorachev was the last leader of the USSR before it fell apart.
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George Bush Sr. became the 41st US president.
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The USSR announced that they officially left Afghanistan
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Chinese forces massacred thousands of protesters.
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The wall that separated West and East Berlin was torn down.
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On this day the hammer and sickle flag was replaced by the russian tri color flag and Gorbachev resigned. The USSR fall apart.
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First president of the Russian Federation.
