U.S. History

The conference was attended by Truman, Churchill, and Stalin. They tried t get Stalin to hold free elections in Eastern Europe. http://bp0.blogger.com/_u4AaNGZm1xw/RpxCRgvYJSI/AAAAAAAAAP8/5oROT-yghNY/s400/potsdam-conference.jpg

Philippines gains its independence from the United States.

This was a plan made by the USA to prevent communism from spreading by loaning money to Eastern Europe countries.

This was meant to help USA's allies in Canada and Europe, so that if anyone harmed them the U.S. would back them up.
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The Soviet Union copies the U.S. atomic bomb and explode it.

The Korean War started in 1950. Korea was one of the Cold War hot spots. Korea is now split up between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea being communist and South Korea being democratic. http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/images/korean-war-artillery.jpg

This was a pact made by the Soviet Union in alliance with Western Europe for security.

Fidel Castro came into power as the Cuban Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and as the Cuban President from 1976 to 2008. He was a dictator.
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The Soviet Union placed 42 missiles in Cuba. The U.S. in an attempt to defend itself told the Soviets to take them away.

Communist North Vietnam win control over all of South Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War. Vietnam had been ruled by France as a colony since the 1800s. Ho Chi Minh, a nationalist and communist fought for independence. His army defeated the French in 1954. Afterwards, Vietnam split into two sides: communist and noncommunist.
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In July 1969, American astronauts became the first people to walk on the moon.

Detente was a policy to lessen tensions in the Cold War. The U.S. did not want to have a fight with the Soviet Union. Richard Nixon led the U.S. through the policy to try to make peace with the highly unreasonable Soviets.
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The SALT talks were two meetings between Nixon of the U.S. and Brezhnev of the Soviet Union. They proposed to have a limit on the number of weapons a country could have. This was supposed to prevent the Soviet Union from destroying America.
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The SDI was a program set up by Regan to protect the U.S. from enemy missiles. America did not want to be taken over by communists so they built up their military.
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The Berlin Wall is torn down by the people of Berlin. The Berlin Wall had divided East Germany from West Germany.
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