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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Trial
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First Communist Leader of China (Mao Zedong)
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Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism
he Senate votes 67 to 22 in favor of condemning – but not censuring – McCarthy for false accusations and his crass demeanor throughout the Army-McCarthy hearings. Vice President Richard Nixon, presiding over the Senate, strikes the word “censure” from the resolution’s title at the last minute at the behest of McCarthy’s die-hard supporters who, as author Haynes Johnson put it, “launched an effort to discredit the proceedings and diminish the meaning of what took place.”23 Not a single act of esp -
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The Vietnam War
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Sputnik
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U-2 Incident
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First Men on the Moon
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Perestrokia and Glasnost
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Reagen`s "Mr. Garbachev, Tear Down this Wall" Speech
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Fall Of The Berlin Wall
'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. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall.' -
End of the Soviet Union
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