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Revolution with the Tsarist autocracy against the Soviet Union. This is a significant event because it started the communist movement.
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the Iron curtain is the countries allied with the Soviets in the cold war. It symbolizes the Soviets efforts to isolate themselves.
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The Potsdam conference is a conference between The U.S., The U.S.S.R., and The U.K. at the end of WWII. THey discussed treaties and the post-war order. It marked the end of the war in euorpe.
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The atomic bomb destroyed each city it was dropped on(Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and ended the war in the Pacific. It also showed the rest of the world that the U.S. has nuclear wepons and that we are willing two use them.
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The Truman doctrine started the U.S. policy of containment. It's important because it changed America's forien policy.
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The Marshall Plan, or European recovery program, was the US's first aid two west European countries to rebuild after WWII. Ther Marshall plan reduced communist influence in west European countries.
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The Berlin blockade and airlift started when the Soviets blockaded the city from the outside world. The U.S. airlifted food and other supplies to the citizens of Berlin.
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NATO is an alliance of European countries and the US aganist the Soviets and their allies.
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On August 29, 1949, the Soviets successfully tested their atomic bomb. Now both the US and The Soviet Union hed atomic bombs.
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Ten men in Hollywood blacklisted for being accused of being communists. The film made about the situation denounces McCarthyism and Hollywood blacklisting.
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A war with North Korea, the Soviet Union, and China vs. South Korea, and the US. The war lasted three years and ended when an armistice was signed and Korea was divided. It showed that the US was willing to send armed forces to contain communism.
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Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union during part of the cold war.
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Massive retaliation policy is the idea that if the other side knew we had these wepons and would use them they wouldn't attack.
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Hearings with McCarthy against the army. The army said that he was pushing them to give preferential treatment to one of McCarthy's friends. McCarthy said these accusations were only because of his accusations of communism in the military. the result was the end of the McCarthyism era.
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The Warsaw Pact was the counter-alliance to NATO. There was never a direct conflict against Warsaw and NATO, but they fought in ideologies and in proxy wars.
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Communist North Vietnam won the war. Causing US troops to leave and the start of the war with vietnam and cambodea.
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It started as a student uprising and thousands of people joined in to take down the comunist govement in their country. It started the fall of comunism in east euorpe.
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A US u2 plane was shot down flying over the Soviet Union while conducting ariel pictues of the soviet union.
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A failed military mission in Cuba to dismantle Cubas communist government.
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The Berlin wall divided Berlin from the rest of the country for 28 years. The wall symbolized the lack of freedom with communism.
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A thirteen-day conflict where we dismantled our missles in turkey and the soviets dismatled their missles in cuba.
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A policy that Nixon used to de-escalate the chance of nuclear war.
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The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy that Regan used in the cold war to fight against communism. It was used until the end of the cold war in 1991.
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A speech Regan made urging the Soviet leader to tear down the Berlin wall if he truly wanted peace. This lead to the tearing down of the Berlin wall.
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The Berlin Wall was torn down officially on 3 October 1990 but it was anonced in noveber 1989.
