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Joseph Stalin
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
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Iron Curtain
Boundary dividing Europe into two areas; began at the end of WWII, lasted until the end of the Cold War -
United Nations Formed
International organization that promotes and facilitates international law, international security, civilright, democracy, and many other things -
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Ho Chi Minh
President of Vietnam -
Truman Doctrine
Policy that the United States would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to protect them from the Soviets -
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Berlin Airlift
Organized by the Western Allies to carry supplies to people in West Berlin -
NATO Formed
Intergovernmental military alliance that constitutes a system of collective defense -
Mao Zedong Forms People's Republic of China
Also known as Red China or Communist China -
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Korean War
War between South Korea (supported by UN), and North Korea (supported by Soviet Union) -
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Nikita Khrushchev
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
KGB Formed
Main security agency for the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991 -
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Warsaw Pact
Mutual defense treaty between eight communist states -
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Vietnam War
War between North Vietnam and South Vietnam over whether or not Vietnam would be Communist or Democratic; North won -
Suez Canal Nationalized
Nationalized by Gamel Abdel Nasser -
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Sputnik 1
1st artificial Earth satellite, 23 in diameter -
Berlin Wall Begins Construction
Completely cut off West Berlin from East Berlin -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
A major confrontation of the Cold War; United States v. Soviet Union and Cuba -
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Leonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
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Tet Offensive
Military campaign during the Vietnam War; launched in three phases -
Helsinki Accords
Final act of Conference of Security and Co-operation in Europe; signed to improve relations between Communist bloc and the West -
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
Diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States -
Moscow Olympics
The 22nd Olympics; 80 nations competed, 5,179 people participating, 203 events in 21 sports -
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Lech Walesa Becomes Chairman of Solidarity
Created this position as an advisory body that turned into a political party that won the parliamentary elections in June 1989 -
Los Angeles Olympics
The 23rd Olympics; 140 nations competed, 6,829 people participated, 221 events in 23 sports -
Perestroika and Glasnost
Perestroika was the"restructuring" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Glasnost means openness, and has to do with Mikail Gorbachev and his policy reform -
Chernobyl Disaster
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Tiananmen Square Protests
Pro-democracy movement; ended June 4th 1989 with declaration of martial law in Beijing -
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Mikail Gorbachev
President of the Soviet Union -
Berlin Wall is Destroyed
Destroyed after people were allowed to travel between East and West Berlin -
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Boris Yeltsin
1st President of Russia -
End of USSR
Soviet Union is dissolved and becomes Russia -
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Vladmir Putin
President of Russia
