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Cold War
An ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. -
Talk/Potsdam
The Potsdam Conference is perhaps best known for President Truman's July 24, 1945 conversation with Stalin, during which time the President informed the Soviet Union. -
Long Telegram
Spurred intellectual policy debate that formed the basis of American policy towards the Soviet Union for the next 25 years, including the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. -
Novikov Telegram
The Soviet ambassador to the USA, Nikolai Novikov, warned that the USA had emerged from World War Two economically strong and bent on world domination. -
Truman Doctrine
On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Comecorn and Cominform
Stalin formed Cominform and Comecon in response to the threat he believed the Marshall plan posed the Soviet Union. -
Marshall Plan
Proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
NATO
To safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means. -
Start of the Korean war
After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel, the line dividing communist North Korea from the non-communist Republic. -
The end of the Korean war
On July 27, 1953, seven months after President Eisenhower's inauguration as the 34th President of the United States, an armistice was signed, ending organized combat operations and leaving the Korean Peninsula divided much as it had been since the close of World War II at the 38th parallel. -
Warsaw Pact
A collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. -
Vietnam War begun and ending
Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
The Great Leap forward begun
The Great Leap Forward Second Five Year Plan of the People's Republic of China PRC was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist. -
Great leap forward
The Great Leap Forward Second Five Year Plan of the People's Republic of China PRC was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist. -
Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China PRC. -
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Soviet-Afghan War
Iranian Revolution
Mujahideen
Operation Storm 333
Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
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End of the Cold War
End of the after what happen what World War 2