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| Replacing the U. S. Troops with South Vietnamese Troops |
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| A cease-fire agreement in Vietnam was signed in Paris |
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| Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese and was renamed Ho Chi Minh City |
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| Father of the Hydrogen Bomb |
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| A pro-Communist U. S. Atomic consultant who opposed Edward Teller's nuclear weapons |
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| The idea of reducing tension or hostility between nations |
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| Ended American opposition to Communist China's membership in the UN |
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| Succeeded Khrushchev in Russia and continued the policy of "peaceful coexistence" |
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| Signed between the free world and the Communist block which promised better "economic cooperation" and "cultural changes" between the West and East |
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| Russian writer who warned the West not to be fooled into thinking that detente would bring peace |
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| The world's first man-made satellite |
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| Neil Armstrong lands on the moon |
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| The US and Soviet Union agreed to limit the production of nuclear arms |
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| The most brutal "war of liberation" |
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| Britain's first woman prime minister |
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| The most extensive naval conflict since World War II |
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| Making preemptive strikes to stop Communism before it could enslave a nation |
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| Used by Fidel Castro as a military base to invade South America |
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| Soviet fighter jets shot down this South Korean airliner |
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| A nuclear reactor melted down here in Soviet Ukraine |
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| A system of space-age weaponry to destroy enemy inter-continental ballistic missiles in flight |
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| Led a movement of Polish nationalists called Solidarity |
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| Came to power as the Soviet Union after Brezchnev and announced a dramatic change of Communist policy |
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| Russia agreed to remove their medium range missiles from Europe |
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| Restructuring and Openness |
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| The Communists had begun to lose control of Eastern Europe |
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| East and West Germany were officially united |
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| This cruel dictator of Romania was executed |
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