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The United States tested the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New mexico . The atomic bomb had two objectives: a quick end of world war two and possession by the U.S. and would allow control of foreign policy.
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The soviets detonated there first atomic bomb in Kazakhstan. This ended the atomic weponary and made the arms race focus on the cold war. The U.S. and the Soviet union competed to make better and build more nuclear wepons.
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North Korean forces attacked the South Korean border. 90,000 North Korean troops were armed with powerful tanks and other Soviet wepons. Within days, the Northerners overtook South Korea's capital, Seoul, and perused the retreating South Korean army.
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1,300 exiles armed with U.S. weapons landed at the Bahia de Cochinos on the southern coast of Cuba. It was evident from the first hours of fighting, however the exiles were likely to lose.
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Trucks with soldiers and construction workers rumbled through East Berlin. While most Berilins were sleeping, the crew dug holes, and strung barbed wire across the border between East and West Berlin.
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Reconnaissance photographs revealed Soviet missiles in construction in Cuba. The next day John f. Kennedy was warned of the missle instalations. Kennedy orginized excomm to block the nuclear wepons to America. After that, the president removed all the nuclear wepons from Cuba.
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The U.S. quietly removed the missiles from Turkey, that threatend the Solviet Union, and signed the treaty.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin ''Buzz'' Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbited around the Moon alone.
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The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances.
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The resistance ousted him and installed the Taliban goverment whose hard-line policies ended the fighting and the Cold War.