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Beggining at the end of WW2. U.S. and Soiet Union began a race to match or top each others new Weapons.The result was a balance of terror. People lived in constant fear of nuclear destruction.
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1949 US and Canada and 9 other countries formed an alliance they pledged to help each other if any of them were attacked
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1955 Soviet union responded to Nato by forming its own alliance called the warsaw pact.Soviets resorted to keep their satellites in order.
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Fidel Castro took over the country and trasformed it into communist. Know as the cuban revolution
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Berlin was split into 2 sections west berlin being democratic east berlin being communist.In 1961 east Germany built a wall that sealed off west berlin.The wall was built to keep people from fleeing.
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Soviet Union sent nuclear missiles to cuba.President Kennedy Ordered a blockade to prevent futher shipment and demanded that the soviet union remove the missles. This caused the world to fesr a nuclear war.Eventually they romved the missles.
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Americans and Soviet armss control agreement led to an era of Detente Which was a relaxation of tensions