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1 The Cold war

2 AN IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL
BAD DEMOCRACY FREEDOM CAPITALISM FREE MARKETS GOD NATO UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITIAN, OTHERS COMMUNISM TOTALITARIANISM ATHEISM WARSAW PACT SOVIET UNION, CHINA, OTHERS

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4 Cold War Events: (The dates are approximate.)
Nuclear weapons (entire time) Greek Civil War (1946) “Iron Curtain” (1946) The Long Telegram (1946) First Indochina War (1947) Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan (1947) Arab-Israeli Conflict (1948) People's Republic of China (1949) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949) Berlin Airlift (1949) Korean War (1950) Warsaw Pact formed (1955) Hungarian Revolt 1956 Sputnik and the Space Race (1957) Eisenhower Doctrine (1957) Fidel Castro comes to power (1959) U-2 spy plane incident (1960) Bay of Pigs (1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Dominican Civil War (1965) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) Domino Theory (1965) Vietnam War (1968) Czechoslovakia invaded by Soviet Union 1968 Soviet–Afghan War (1979) Nicaraguan Revolution (1979) Solidarity Movement (Poland) (1980) The Miracle on Ice (Olympics 1980, USA hockey beat USSR Invasion of Grenada (1983) Berlin Wall ( ) Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

5 End of the cold war Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Saint Pope John Paul II Mikhail Gorbachev

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8 On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. 

9 The cold war was over Works cited:

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