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When did WWll end?
unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day – Victory in Europe celebrates the end of the Second World War www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/end.html
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Mutually Assured Destruction
Mutual assured destruction, or MAD, is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction -
United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations https://g.co/kgs/8ASCC
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churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
n one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." http://derrickjeter.com/2013/03/05/speeches-that-made-history-winston-churchills-iron-curtain/ -
Truman Doctrine
an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Doctrine
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Marchall plan
officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty http://www.nato.int/
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Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift
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USSR's first Atomic Bomb test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-explode-atomic-bomb
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Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen ("Gate of Heavenly Peace") located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. The square contains the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in the square on October 1, 1949; the anniversary of this event is still observed there. -
China's Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought from 1927 to 1950. Because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT), there was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, aka in format to NATO) was 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact -
H-Bomb
hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes. In an atomic bomb, uranium or plutonium is split into lighter elements that together weigh less than the original atoms, the remainder of the mass appearing as energy. http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/hydrogen-bomb.html
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Stalin's Death
Former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin -
Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War -
End of Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War -
SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine, (Jan. 5, 1957), in the Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. http://www.britannica.com/event/Eisenhower-Doctrine
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Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 -
When did Fidel Castro take over Cuba?
Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-) established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades, until handing off power to his younger brother Raúl in 2008. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fidel-castro
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy -
When was JFK shot and killed?
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy -
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson -
NASA's first moon landing
Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC (46 years ago). Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/how-long-ago-was-it/
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SALT - First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty
SALT I, the first series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, extended from November 1969 to May 1972. During that period the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. http://www.state.gov/t/isn/5191.htm
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War,[41] and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war[42] that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War -
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford -
Francis Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers – often referred to as simply Gary Powers – was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers -
Miracle on ice
The "Miracle 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. The United States national team, made up of amateur and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet Union national team, which had won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Olympic games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Ice -
Jimmy Carter
ames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter -
STAR WARS- Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (Intercontinental ballistic missiles and Submarine-launched ballistic missiles). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative -
U.S. boycott of the summer olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.[1] The Soviet Union and other countries would later support the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott in Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics_boycott
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George Bush (Senior)
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who was 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the U.S. Republican Party, he was previously a congressman, ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War -
When did Soviets leave Afghanistan?
Then, from 15 May 1988, the Soviet troops started to leave Afghanistan. This continued until 2 February 1989. On 15 February 1989, the Soviet Union announced that all its troops had left Afghanistan. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.[1] Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall -
Berlin Wall falls
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
When did Gorbachev come to power?
Mikhail Gorbachev, in full Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born March 2, 1931, Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Gorbachev -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[1] The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union -
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin
