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An ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. -
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. -
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.
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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. -
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. -
Stalin formed Cominform and Comecon in response to the threat he believed the Marshall plan posed the Soviet Union. -
Proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
To safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means. -
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. -
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. -
A collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. -
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 Second Five Year Plan of the People's Republic of China PRC was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist. -
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. -
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China PRC. -
Iranian Revolution
Mujahideen
Operation Storm 333
Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
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