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Abby's Cold War Timeline
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George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany in 1994
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Communists seize power in Poland.
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he American and British zones of control in Germany are united
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communists take control
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Formed the north atlantic treaty
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Millitery alliances
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U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces.
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West Germany joins NATO and begins rearmament
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U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government.
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Dwight Eisenhower becomes president
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed.
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U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government.
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Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution
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The soviets sent Sputnik I
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Truman Doctrine
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first man made satalite
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China explodes its first atomic bomb.
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U.S. sends troops to the Dominican Republic U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam.
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President Richard Nixon visits China.
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U.S. supported coup overthrows Chilean government.
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South Vietnam falls to Communist forces.
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Soviet and Cuban forces help install Communist government in Angola.
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Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed.
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U.S. invades Grenada.
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Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government.
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Solidarity forms the first post-war non-Communist government in Poland
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Hungary declares a non-Communist government.
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East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany.
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Berlin Wall is demolished.
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George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany in 1994