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The Tiananmen Square Massacre was a response to a protest in the People's Republic of China in 1989. This incident occurred when several waves of protests across the course of a few months came
to a head.This led to mass criticisms and sanctions around the world, and has remained a controversial topic into the 21st century. This occured on April 15, 1989.The Tiananmen Square Massacre remains a banned topic in China as of 2012, and any mention of it in media, literature, or art is subject to censorship

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Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The fall occurred on December 26,1991.

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At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. This occurred on December 24, 1979 to February 15, 1989. Babrak Karmal, Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev were involved.

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The purpose of the Bay of Pigs Invasion was to attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. It was thought that there would be little resistance and the Cuban population would turn to support the exiles. It was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. This happened from April 17 to April 20 in 1961. The people involved were Tony Varona, José Miró Cardona, Rafael Quintero, and Aureliano Arango. Finally they were defeated within 2 days by Cuban armed forces under the direct command of Castro.

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The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep the fascist people from entering East Germany. The East German soldiers put down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barriers throughout the heat of Berlin. The wall was up from 1961 to 1989. The Soviets and East Germans were part of this wall. The fall of Berlin wall in 1989 laid the groundwork for the new institutions, new states, and and new conflicts.

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An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. The cuban missile crisis brought the U.S and the Soviet Union close to the over presence of Soviet nuclear- armed ballistic missiles in Cuba. This happened from October 16,1962 to October 29, 1962. President Kennedy was the one mainly involved in the crisis.

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The causes of the Vietnam war were the power struggle between France and Ho Chi Minh, the domino theory, cold war politics and the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. The country of Vietnam was split into two parts, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam wanted to reunite the country under Communism, its political and economic system. South Vietnam fought to keep this from happening. The war began in November 1, 1955 and ended in April 30,1975.  Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.

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The Korean War was caused because North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union all wanted the Korean Peninsula to be a communist area. This war began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. The war started on June 25, 1950 and ended on July 27, 1953. After the signing of an armistice agreeing that the country would remain divided.

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It began with the assault on the Moncada Barracks on 26 July 1953. The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S. The Cuban Revolution occurred between 1953 and 1959. As a result, the Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's regime by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a new Cuban government led by Fidel Castro in 1959.

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The fear of communist expansion and the rapid deterioration were the causes of this event. The Marshall Plan was a program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of WWII. The Marshall Plan occur from April 1948 to December 1951. This plan included the United States and Europe, President Truman had signed the act on April 3, 1948. As an outcome the Marshall Plan  provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in Western Europe.

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China Southern Airlines, Prospekt Mira, Moscow, Russia

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The 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria began a chain of events that led to the eventual communist overthrow of China in 1949. In October of 1911, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system. This occured on August 1, 1927 to October 1, 1949. This concluded the victory of Mao's Chinese Communist Party, and the loss of the Nationalist Party, uniting China for the first time in the 20th century.

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This happened because the US used containment to stop the spread of communism so the Soviets built a wall separating east and west Berlin. Food and fuel was airlifted to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. This lasted from June 24, 1948 to May 12,1849. Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt were involved. The Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin.

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Postwar Occupation & Division of Germany

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Postwar Occupation & Division of Germany

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Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union leader preferred that a defeated Germany should be divided so it could not rise to its former strength to threaten European peace and security.During this Germany was was divided into four zones Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest the U.S in the south and the Soviet Union in the east. This began in 1949 and ended officially in the mid-1950s. The Americans, British, French, and Soviets were involved. After all Germany was divided.

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The Eastern Bloc originated at the end of World War II. During this event the eastern european countries formed a "barrier" for the U.S.S.R mitigating the potential consequences of invasion from the west. This started in 1945 and ended in 1990. The Soviet Union,Romania,Poland, Hungary,East Germany,Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Albania where involved. The Soviet Union broke up into independent republics.