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Approximately 500,000 troops with Romania and Albania refusing to participate, attacked Czechoslovakia. 108 Czechs and Slovaks were killed and around 500 wounded in the invasion
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The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union
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The Iron Curtain formed the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II.
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War
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An American initiative to aid western Europe, the US gave 13 Billion to help Europe after WWII
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One of the 1st crises of the cold war Supplies Had to Be Shipped into West Berlin
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At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany
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Arose from the division of Korea at the end of WWII and from the global tension of the cold war that developed immediately afterwards
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They diagnosed him with a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke) caused by hypertension (high blood pressure), with stomach hemorrhage facilitating.
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A collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War
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A Cold War era that occurred in Vietnam and followed the 1st Indochina War.
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A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies
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The 20th century race between USA and USSR for supremacy in space flight capability
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A Russian Space Craft was the First to enter space
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A US U-2 spy plane was shot down while in soviet airspace.
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After the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union after the Cuban revolution of 1959, Cuba became increasingly dependent on Soviet markets and military aid, becoming an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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A failed US military invasion of Cuba
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A barrier that divided berlin into east and west
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A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
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A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. 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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Eliminated nuclear and conventional ground launching ballistics and cruise missiles. Did not include sea launched missiles.
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The Day of German Unity has been the German national holiday, when the reunification was formally completed. It is a legal holiday for the Federal Republic of Germany.
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the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries
