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Beginning of the Cold War: Aid Greece & Turkey to prevent fall to communism, Truman Doctrine: goal to contain communism, Marshall plan: aid to Western Europe
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
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1949: China falls to communism; Korean war
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Arms Race
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Eastern Bloc
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Khrushchev, De-Stalinization, Sputnik, Communist Expansion into Asia and Africa
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U-2 Spy Plan, Test Ban Treaty, Castro overthrows Cuban government & establish communism in Western Hemisphere, Cuban Missile Crisis
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Brezhnev, Czech “Prague Spring” Alexander Dubek
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Ostpolitik & Détente: Willy Brandt, Nixon & Kissinger, Nixon visits China & Moscow
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Soviets invade Afghanistan
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Gorbachev, Kohl, Reagen, Thatcher
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Fall of Berlin Wall, fall of communism in Eastern Europe, attempted coup in Moscow, Yeltsin, Putin
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Growth of NATO & EU
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