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japan surrenders to the allies and Hitler is dead.

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The three leaders of the allied powers got together and discussed how they would divide Germany in order to rebuild it, William Churchhill, Franklin Rosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.

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Germany is split between east and west because Stalin refuses to give up his part. the USSR wants to make germany Communist

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The iron curtain was a fake line between the communist(satellite countries) and the democratic countries.

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The theory that the fall of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighboring states.

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An alliance to be able to achieve global peace and talk through conflict instead of fight. the first countries in it were France, the US, China, USSR, and the UK. after that 46 other countries joined in 1945 and there are a total of 193 members now.

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The Warsaw pact is the communist version of   NATO created by the USSR and , Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania joined.

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the policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries.

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Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. gave 400 million dollars to both Greece and Turkey.

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The Marshall plan was created by the US to help aid any countries affected by the war even the axis powers. in total, 13 billion dollars was given to countries. USSR denied the help.

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The Berlin Blockade happend when Stalin denied resources such as food and water to west Berlin to get people to join east Berlin instead of leaving. The US ended up airdropping supplies to West Berlin for 11 months before Stalin gave up.

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The arms race was between the US and The USSR competing to have bigger and better bombs and millitaries.

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Before WWII china was fighting between Mao Zedong who was for communism and Chiang Kai-Shek who was for democracy. Once WWII started they stopped and banded together against Japan. after WWII they went back to fighting and Mao Zadgong won since the country had not been happy with democracy and he offered them land if they joined him.

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The Korean war happend because korea was split after WWII and north was communist and south was democratic so what ended up happening is north Korea wanted to take all of Korea and make it communist so they invaded south Korea untill the US joined in and helped south Korea untill they pushed back north Korea so much that china had to help north Korea and they ended in a stalemate with the border now being on the 38th paraell.

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Harry Truman retires and Dwight Eisenhower comes into office. 1953-1961

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Harry Truman retires and Dwight Eisenhower comes into office. 1953-1961

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In 1953 Harry Truman's first term comes to an end and he decides not to run again so Dwight Eisenhower comes into office. on Jan 20, 1953.
Eisenhower's cold war policies were
The Soviet Union and the US both had the bombs powerful enough to completely destroy each other but because of that they do not use them also he wanted to make sure that countries did become communist and contain the spread.

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Khrushchev and JFK meet to discuss Berlin and nuclear build-up. it is said that Khrushchev did not respect Kennedy very much and talked over him a lot during the meeting due to Kennedy being in his 40s and the youngest US president.

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The soviet union decides to build a wall between east berlin and west berlin to keep the germans from going to democratic berlin.

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In 1959 Fadel Castro made Cuba communist by kicking out the American government. in response to this, the US sent 1,400 Cuban exiles to the beaches of Cuba to assassinate Fadel Castro with promised air support from the US but the air support never came and the exiles were captured and the US ended up having to pay 50 million dollars of food and medical supplies to free the exiles.

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in 1962 the US CIA got images of missile silo's being built in Cuba and to prevent the USSR from sending the missiles over to Cuba by ship we had American ships blockade/quarantine Cuba from soviet ships. the soviet union ended up going back with the bombs and ended up making a deal with the US for them to get rid of the missile silo's in Cuba if we got rid of the missiles in Turkey and we agreed

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In 1963 JFK went to west berlin to deliver a speech to the germans living there and he said "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words‚ Ich bin ein Berliner!

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on November 22, 1963, JFK was on his way to a lunch meeting while parading through Dallas texas when he was shot by a man named Lee Harvey who had lived in Russia and wanted to get rid of his American citizenship for soviet citizenship but was not allowed to so he moved back to the US and got a job at a library where he shot JFK from the window 3 times one hit JFK in the head 1 hit the car and 1 hit a CIA guard. Lyndon Johnson his vice president was sworn into office shortly after JFK was declared dead.

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in 1954 the communists kicked the french out of Vietnam and Vietnam is split into North Vietnam which is Communist-led by Ho Chi Min and South Vietnam which is democratic. up until 1965, the US had been giving South Vietnam money and supplies to fight North Vietnam until 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson the tonkin_Resolution passed by congress. we end up starting to lose quite bad since our military had never really fought in the jungle before as well as Vietnamese troops used guerrilla warfare against us. After Nixion was sworn into office he made a proposal called Vietnamization in 1969 to pull all American troops out of Vietnam and bring them back to the US. it is said when they got back to the US they were not very well appreciated people did not have good opinions about people that fought during the Vietnam war.

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The Tonkin resolution made by President Lyndon Johnson gave johnson the authority to send 550,00 US troops there. and not require authority from congress to make decisions on veitnam.

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Once Nixon had been sworn into office he made Vietnamization which took our American troops out of vietnam and bring them back.

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India's first female prime minister and some of the things she did was.

Creates closer relations with relations

Develops nuclear program in India

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In 1878 Deng Xiaoping decided to pass a law to allow Chinese citizens and businesses to trade with the west and this ends up making people protest for more freedom.

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Margret Thatcher was prime minister of Great Britian from1979 to 1990 and some of the things she did are.
· Promotes free trade less gov't regulation of business

· Asserted UK's military  power

· Creates closer relations with the U.S

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Gorbachev comes to power in 1985 and passes two laws called Perestroika which is the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system, in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation. he also passes the law called Glasnost which is when he allows people of the USSR and eastern Europe to freely talk about the government and communism with no punishment.

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Ronald REAGAN CHALLENGED gorbachev “OPEN THIS GATE AND TEAR DOWN THIS WALL" .

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They decide to make a new gate for the berlin wall into austria to allow people to vacation into austria but then people would leave into west germanny and not come back so they took down the gate and people in east berlin started to protest and riot untill they finnally took down the wall in 1989.

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During the 1980's there where many countries to join Nato as well as many countries to leave the warsaw pact remove communism from their governmnet. Also many countries such as yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia after they turned to democracy.

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After china got some economic freedom from Deng Xiaoping they decided to protest and the government decided to send millitary action after 3000 protesters remained and about 1000 injured and 100 killed in tenamen square.

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The Fall of the USSR and the End of the Cold War-1991

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The Fall of the USSR and the End of the Cold War-1991

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With most countries leaving the warsaw pact and only leaving the USSR as well as them getting economic rights the government wanted to revert back to old communism but the citizens protested and Russia was turned democratic. and the first president elected was Nikolayevich Yeltsin