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World War ll
A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States -
Churchills Iron Curtain Speech
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United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation -
Truman Doctrine
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection -
Marshall Plan
Was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin. -
NATO
Also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
USSR's First Atomic Bomb
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Chinas Civil War
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Korean War
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H-Bomb
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Stalins Death
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End of Korean War
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SEATO
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Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
A Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. -
Sputnik
Each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. -
Fidel Castro Takeover
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Francis Gary Power
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JFK
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Bay of Pigs
Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from the east from the west 1961 to 1989, -
Cuban Missle Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy Death
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Lyndon Johnson
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Vietnam War 1955-1975
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Richard Nixon
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NASA First Moon Landing
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Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
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Mircale on Ice
Is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22. -
Ronald Reagan
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Gorbachev Came to Power
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George Bush Sr
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Soviets Leave Afgan
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Tiananmen Square
commonly known as the June Fourth Incident or '89 Democracy Movement in China. -
Berlin Wall Falls
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Collapse of the Soviet Union
