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John F. Kennedy
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.. -
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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 and the Nationalist Kuomintang, there was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China.. -
End Of WW2
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United Nations
Intergovernmental organization that promoted international co-operation. France, Denmark, Ecuador, Austrailia, Canada, Belgium, and more.. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Speech announcing that there is going to be an "iron curtain" from Setting in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic. This was a cause to the cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
American foriegn policy intended to counter the soviet in the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economics after the end of the war. -
Berlin Airlift
Military Operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after East Berlin cut off supplies. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
USSR's first atomic bomb test
tested to measure the affects of the blast, the Soviet Scientist constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilians structures in the vicinity of the bomb. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
H-Bomb
The event ends AMericas monopoly of atomic weaponary and launches the Cold War. In the 1950's, The Arms Race became the focus of the Cold War. America test the first Hydrogen bomb -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Was an American politician and General who served as the 34th President of the US from 1953 until 1961 -
Stalins Death
was the leader of the soviet union from the mid- 1920's until his death in 1953 -
End of the Korean War
Was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the US fought for the south, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union -
SEATO
The southeast asia treaty organization was a INTERNATIONAL organization for collective defense in Southest Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in Sept. 1945 in Manila Philippines -
War Saw Pact
Was the collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
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Vietnam war
Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
U.S. forein-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic id to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. -
SPUNIK
The furs artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit -
Fidel Castro Takes Cuba
Fidel Castro established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the militarty dictatorship of Fulgencia Batista in 1959 -
Bay of Pigs
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. -
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin.. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
Jfk assassination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
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Lyndon Johnson
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. -
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Richard Nixon
the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. -
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. -
SALT
For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977.. -
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. -
Francis Gary Powers
Francis 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. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups, who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces.. -
Mircale 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. -
US 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.. -
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. -
STAR WARS- strategic defense initiative
A proposed missile defense system intended to protect the US from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons -
Tiananmen Square
best known in recent memory as the focal point of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, a pro-democracy movement which ended on 4 June 1989 with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government and the shooting of several hundred, or possibly thousands, of civilians by soldiers. -
Gorbachev Comes to Power
is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
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George Bush Sr.
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States, and the 43rd Vice President of the United States. -
Soviets Leave Afghanistan
From 15 May 1988, the Soviet troops started to leave Afghanistan. This continued until 2 February 1989.. -
Berlin Wall falss
The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased.. -
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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.. -
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