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The failure of the Yalta and Postdam Agreements started to become more apparent
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Truman announced this doctrine that the United States had no choice but to provide foreign aid to the struggling nations of Greece and Turkey.
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the United States’ commitment to containment influenced by Secretary of State George C. Marshall
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Great Britain, France, and the United States merged their occupation zones.
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The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb after spying on the United States atomic weaponry for years.
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Truman signed the Federal Civil Defense Act. This made a new agency to deal with civil defense.
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Stalin died, and Nikita S. Khrushchev replaced him as leader of the Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union had 7 Eastern Bloc or Eastern European nations formed the Soviet-led collective security alliance, or the Warsaw Pact
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The Soviet Union put the first human-made satellite into orbit around the Earth.
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Khrushchev wanted to have the Allies put troops into West Berlin. When the Allies denied, Khrushchev build a wall made of barbed wire and cinderblocks in 1961
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Fidel Castro led a group to overthrow a dictatorship in Cuba.
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Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.
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1991 marks the end of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe.
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