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The Yalta Conference had helped to end World War II.
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They confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany.
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Existence by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories. -
These borders were formed in the years after World War II, as Soviet-controlled regimes in the East sought to tighten control and prevent both emigration and infiltration.
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President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress.
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The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin.
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The Washington Treaty or North Atlantic Treaty forms the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO.
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The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.
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The Vietnam War may have defined 1960s and 1970s America, but it lasted 10 years by the most widely accepted metric.
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An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over Soviet air space.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro.
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A spy plane was secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union.
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The Berlin Wall is began to thaw across Eastern Europe.
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By late 1991, amid a catastrophic political crisis, with several republics already departing the Union and the waning of centralized power, the leaders of three of its founding members declared that the Soviet Union no longer existed.
