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At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and etc. -
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The United Nations was established to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems. -
Is an American foreign policy that established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Was an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
The Korean Was a conflict between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by the UN with the U.S. as principal participant. -
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states. -
The space race was a 20th Century struggle between two nation-states, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US). -
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. -
In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. -
Was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. -
After half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. -
The coup diminished Gorbachev's power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian politics.