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| 341918914 | Anti-Cominterm Pact | Germany and japan later joined by italy to stop communism. | 0 | |
| 341918915 | Battle of Britain | German air forces invaded Britain but the British Royal Air Force drove them out with the help of the new invention radar that let them know where the German planes were. | 1 | |
| 341918916 | Pearl Harbor | United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. | 2 | |
| 341918917 | Manhattan Project | Code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II. | 3 | |
| 341918918 | D-day | Planned June 5th June 6 1944 Germans occupied Normandy France Germans though it would occur at Calais and goal was to liberate Paris. | 4 | |
| 341918919 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. | 5 | |
| 341918920 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. | 6 | |
| 341918921 | Berlin Blockade | The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift. | 7 | |
| 341918922 | Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. | 8 | |
| 341918923 | Soviet bloc | The Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that installed Communist regimes after World War II and were dominated by the Soviet Union. | 9 | |
| 341918924 | Western bloc | The term that refers to the area occupied by the powers allied with the United States and NATO against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. | 10 | |
| 341918925 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology (1947). | 11 | |
| 341918926 | NATO | An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security. | 12 | |
| 341918927 | Warsaw Pact | Treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. | 13 | |
| 341918928 | Iron Curtain | A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region. | 14 | |
| 341918929 | Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty | A treaty that stated who could possess nuclear arms to limit the amount and possession of them. (1968) | 15 | |
| 341918930 | Three Principles of the People | Nationalism, Socialism, and Democracy. | 16 | |
| 341918931 | Tiananmen Square massacre | In 1989, demonstrators peacefully assembled to push for greater democracy in China; when the demonstrators refused to disperse the government sent in troops and tanks. | 17 | |
| 341918932 | Platt Amendment | Legislation that severely restricted Cuba's sovereignty and gave the US the right to intervene if Cuba got into trouble. | 18 | |
| 341918933 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927). | 19 | |
| 341918934 | Cuban Revolution | The revolution led by Fidel Castro and a small band of guerrilla fighters against a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba. | 20 | |
| 341918935 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | Failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs. | 21 | |
| 341918936 | National Action Party | The leading right-of-center opposition party in Mexico. | 22 | |
| 341918937 | Hugo Chavez | President of Venezuela. | 23 | |
| 341918938 | Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe. | 24 | |
| 341918939 | Vladimir Putin | Russian statesman chosen as president of the Russian Federation in 2000. | 25 |
