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Battle of Stalingard
It was a major battle on the Eastern Front of WW2 in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia,on the eastern Boundary of Europe. -
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Potsdam Confrence
The last meetin in WW2, held by the "Big Three"heads of state.(Harry Thompson,Jones F. Byrnes,and William Leahy) It was about the future of germany and the role of the Soviet Union in the war against japan. -
Beginning of Cold War
It was started by a wealthy financier and presidential advisir,Benard Baruch,gave a speech. He had coined the term that would come to define the open struggle for influences between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the decades after WW2. -
Berlin Blockade
The Russian wanted Berlin all for themselves,so they closed all highways,railroads,and canals from the western. That then occupied Germany into westearn and that occupied Berlin. -
Sputnik 1
When the Sovien Union successfully launched the worlds first artificial satelite,which was about the size of a basketball. -
Berlin Wall
It was a physical wall that seperated East and West Berlin. 23,000 East Germans fles across to the west. East German police set bob wire across West Berlin. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
It was considered the climax of the Cold War. It was over the soviet union, planning to install nucluer missels. Fadele then led a revolution against america. -
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Vietnam War
A cold war conflict punting U.S. and the Kemomants of the french colonial goverment. -
Glasnot/Perestroika
Mikhail S. Gorbacher created a dual program for recunstructing and openess and introduced profound changes in economic practice,internal affairs and international relations. -
Fall of Communism/Soviet Union
There economic system failed to meet the needs of the state. They underestimated the degree to the non russian ethnic groups in the country.