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Berlin Airlift
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NATO
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USSR first atomic bomb test
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Korean War
KWThe 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 -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Stalin's Death
Stalin's death
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End of the Korean War
End of 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 -
SEATO
SeatoThe Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines -
Warsaw Pact
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Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War -
Eisenhower Doctrine
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Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression -
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Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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JFK Assassination
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Lyndon Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as 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, from 1961 to 1963 -
MAD Plan
MAD Plan
Mutual assured destruction, or MAD, is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender -
Richard Nixon
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Richard Milhous Nixon was 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
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Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon -
SALT
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Were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control -
Gerald Ford
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Francis Gary Powers
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U.S. boycott of the summer olympics
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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
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons -
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Soviets leave. -
Tiananmen Square
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The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident or '89 Democracy Movement in Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing -
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George Bush Sr
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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 -
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The Berlin wall falls. -
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Boris Yeltsin
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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
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
