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Date: February 4th to 11th, 1945
Meeting to discuss postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

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Date: March 12th, 1947
An American foreign policy that wanted to contain the Soviet geopolitical expansion. It focus on economic and military aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey.

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Date: April 3rd, 1948
It was a United States program providing financial aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.

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Formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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Formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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Date: April 4th, 1949
Military alliance between European, American and Eurasian countries.

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Date: June 25th, 1950 to July 27th, 1953
War fought between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union while South Korea by the United Nations, principally the United States.

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Date: March 5th, 1953

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Date: June 19th, 1953
First American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

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Soviets launched the first man into space

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Soviets launched the first man into space

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Date: April 12th, 1961
Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.

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Date: August 13th, 1961
East Germany started to construct a wall that cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin.

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October 16th to 28th, 1962
It was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It became an international crisis when the United States deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by the Soviet Union in Cuba.

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Date: May 26th, 1972
A series of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that were aimed to cut back the manufacture of missiles carrying nuclear weapons.

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Date: 1986
It was a program instituted in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev to restructure Soviet economic and political policy.

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Date: 1986
Policy that increased the openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union.

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Berlin Wall Speech. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

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Berlin Wall Speech. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

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Date: June 12th, 1987
Speech delivered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall.

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Date: October 2nd, 1988
Creation of a congress of people. It was the first time that these bodies presented voters with a choice of candidates, including non-communists.

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Soviet Union cuts military presence in Eastern Europe and the Chinese border

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Soviet Union cuts military presence in Eastern Europe and the Chinese border

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Date: December 7th, 1988
Gorbachev announced at the United Nations Assembly that the Soviet Union was making major cuts to the military presence in Eastern Europe and the Chinese border.

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Date: June 16th, 1989
The former Communist prime minister Imre Nagy, the man who symbolises the 1956 Hungarian uprising, was given a formal public funeral 31 years after he was executed.

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Date: June 27th, 1989
The foreign ministers of Hungary and Austria, cut through a section of the barbed wire that had divided their countries for decades. This is the beginning of the end for communist governments in central and Eastern Europe

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Date: November 9th, 1989
It marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe

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Date: October 3rd, 1990
East and West Berlin were reunited and joined the Federal Republic as a federated city-state.

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Date: August 19th to 22nd, 1991
Failed attempt by communist party of the Soviet Union to take control of the country from the President Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Date: September 6th, 1991
The Soviet Government finally recognized the independence of the Baltic states. The USSR complete withdraw the Russian troops from all Baltic States.

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Foundation of the Commonwealth of Independent States

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Foundation of the Commonwealth of Independent States

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Date: December 8th, 1991
The elected leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Belorussia) signed an agreement forming a new association to replace the crumbling U.S.S.R.

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Date: December 25th, 1991
Gorbachev formally announced his resignation as the Soviet President and Commander-in-Chief.

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Date: December 26th, 1991
An internal political, economic and ethnic disintegration within the Soviet Union which resulted in the end of its existence.