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American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War
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Officially the European Recovery Program
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Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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TiananmenTiananmen Square is a large city square in the centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City.
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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, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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H-BombWeapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes.
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DwightAmerican politician and General who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953
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South Korea remained divided. The US did succeed in checking Communist expansion; however, it did so at great cost in money and lives.
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Was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact
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The name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'.
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WarVietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam,
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Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.
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SputnikSputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses
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Fidel Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as its Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as its President from 1976 to 2008.
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JohnAmerican politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961
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PIGThe Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961
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CrisisThe Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
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Lyndon 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
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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.
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RIchardthe 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office.
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FordGerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
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JimmyJames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center.
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Was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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InvasionThe Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups, who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces
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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.[1] The Soviet Union and other countries would later support the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott in Los Angeles
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MiracleThe "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22
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RonaldRonald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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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 (Intercontinental ballistic missiles and Submarine-launched ballistic missiles).
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GorbMikhail Gorbachev, in full Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born March 2, 1931, Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91.
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BushGeorge 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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BerlinThe Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.[1] Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Wikipedia
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On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
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