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The Russian Revolution was a revolution in Russia that dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union
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In 1940 through 1949, The Soviet Union tested there first Nuclear weapon that was approved by Joseph Stalin to develop such mass weapons during ww2
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The Iron Curtain was a name for a boundary that stretched over Europe dividing it into two separate areas.
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The Potsdam Conference was a conference between the 3 heads of Government that discussed about what would happen after Germany's surrender.
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During the end of WWII, America dropped a nuclear weapon of Japans two cities Hiroshima, and Nagasaki that led to Japans surrender.
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The Molotov Plan was a system created by the Soviet Union to provide aid to Eastern European countries that were aligned with the Soviet Union.
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The Truman Doctrine was a Policy to help keep the Soviet Union contained from sending over threats to Greece and Turkey.
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The Marshall Plan was a American plan to help aid Western Europe by giving them a large sum of money to help rebuild there country.
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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first international crisis that had America on alert. The Soviet Union blocked Western Allies from getting into Germany by blocking off roads and railroads.
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The Berlin Airlift was a plan to help bring supplies to Germany where the Soviet Union blocked off supply lines and get off communications for Germany.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a military alliance between 29 American and European countries.
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Alger Hiss was a American government official that was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948.
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Hollywood ten was a group of Americans who had to give a speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting.
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The Korean war was a war between South Korea and North Korea after North Korea invaded South Korea.
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The Rosenburg's were the first American civilians to be executed for being Soviet spy's that stole Admin bomb.
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conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator.
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Confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East.
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Settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War.
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Nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government.
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Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe
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An American who was shot down over the Soviet Union while flying a CIA spy plane.
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Cuban exiles launched what had became an botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin.
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The Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey.
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President of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem was killed.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated on November 11 during a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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Title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division.
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The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. former Vice president Richard Nixon won the election defeating Hubert Humphrey.
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The Tet offensive was a series of surprise attacks by Vietcong and North Vietnam on cities and towns through out South Vietnam.
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April 4, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. After being rushed to the hospital he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles, After he won California presidential primary.
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We wanted to reform in Czechoslovakia and turn it into a good place.
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Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War. The protest was held during the year of violence following MLK death.
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Unarmed students going against the United States in the Vietnam War were fired on by the National Guard.
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We wanted to gain more leverage with the Soviet Union and to get out of the war.
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The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.
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The Fall of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. North Vietnamese soldiers took over Saigon with little resistance.
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Ronald Reagan being the 40th President and only movie actor to become a President, He would be the one to help end communism between the Soviet Union and America.
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(SDI) or Strategic Defense Initiative, was a defense system created to stop potential Soviet nuclear attacks towards America.
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The conference between Reagan and Gorbachev was to discuss their differences between each nation.
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A speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin, directly speaking to Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall if he wish to seek reform for his country.
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After Reagan's speech towards Gorbachev, the fall of the berlin wall began.
