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The Yalta Conference led to the Cold War because it gave the Soviet Union control over Eastern Europe.
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Poland was one of the first countries that the Soviet Union took into communist force.
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The Truman Doctrine provided Turkey and Greece with military aid and economic aid after the Ottoman Empire collapsed during WWII.
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NATO was a defensicve measure to protect the US and their Western allies from the Soviet Union
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This was important because it was a realization that the war could become a nuclear war.
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The Korean War was the first armed war in the Cold War.
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The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Unions retaliation against NATO.
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Fidel Castro was the first communist leader in the Western hemisphere.
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The Bay of Pigs incident sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Berlin Wall divded Germany between Russia and America.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis proved the the Soviet Union was not affraid of making the Cold War into a nuclear war.
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North Vietnam, which was taken over by the USSR, overthrew South Vietnam and made it communist.
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This was a student led protest agianst the communist leadership in china. The massacre took place on June 4, 1989.
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The collapse of the Berlin Wall symbolized the collapse of communism in Europe during the time of the Cold War.
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Germany represented the "home" of communism so when Germany was reunified it was clear that communism would be over.
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The fall of the Soviet Union split the USSR into fifteen seperate countires. The fall of the USSR represented freedom and no more communism in Europe.
