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COLD WAR ((1985: Kremlin chief Mikhail Gorbachev begins to reorient Soviet…
COLD WAR
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1965: The first US combat forces land in South Vietnam. The US withdraws its troops in 1973. Two years later the communist north conquers the southern part of the country.
1968: Troops from the Warsaw Pact, an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe, stamp out the Prague Spring uprising.
1969: Negotiations between the United Nations and the Soviet Union begin on the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons.
1945: The Allies agree in Potsdam to the fundamental conditions of the occupation of Germany. American nuclear bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1947: The Truman Doctrine: The US offers assistance to countries threatened by communism -- especially Greece and Turkey.
1948: The Communists take power in Czechoslovakia.
- The Soviet blockade of West Berlin.
1949: On April 4, the NATO Treaty is signed in Washington.
-On May 23, the Federal Republic of Germany is established.
-On Oct. 7, the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) is founded.
-The Soviets detonate their first atomic bomb.
-The Communist Party under Mao Zedong establishes the People's Republic of China.
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1970: The Germans and Russians agree to a treaty that renounces the use of force.
1979: 1979: The NATO Double-Track Decision is approved, enabling the US to station 572 "Pershing II" nuclear war heads in Western Europe
1980: Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the US imposes sanctions on the Russians and boycotts the Moscow Olympic Games.
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