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the second world war ends which also ends american-soviet cooperation. this sparked the cold war
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truman established this plan to contain communist expansion. by establishing this plan the U.S aimed to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of Communism.
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Was when the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. blockade prevented allies from getting to berlin
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Fearing further Communist expansion the United States and 11 other Western nations came together to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. Happened after the USSR failed to show up for a veto in the U.N. this was the first proxy war.it began when the North Korean Communist army invaded non-Communist South Korea. As the North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid.
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The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. This act was made to counter the creation of NATO
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Uprising in hungary show that the warsaw pact is not ideologically unified aszs it claims to be. the liberation movement is crushed by warsaw forces
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Khrushchev the leader that preceded stalin tried to implement a policy that would allow for peaceful co-existence among powerful countries. it aimed to keep the peace and prevent any nuclear war
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Wall in berlin was built in order to prevent further western expansion in this region by fascist expansionists.
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It was international agreement limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. On 1 July 1968, the treaty was opened for signature. 189 countries signed this treaty.
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Dubcek's effort to establish communism was celebrated across the country, and the brief period of freedom became known as the Prague Spring. But on August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union answered Dubcek's reforms with invasion and ended the prague springs. following this was the Brezhnev doctrine which said that the Soviet Union had the right to use military force to maintain the strict rule of the Communist Party in nearby socialist countries.
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the end of the war in vietnam signified the failure of containment and proved the domino theory.
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Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country.
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solidarity trade unions in poland organized the pro democracy movement. the government agreed to legalize solidarity and allow it to participate in free elections to a bicameral polish parliament
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After much civil unrest the wall was torn down to create unity once again in germany.
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the soviet union ceases to exist effectively ending the cold war
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Czechoslovak President Václav Havel formally ended the Warsaw Treaty and so disestablished the Warsaw Treaty after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR. After the pact was dissolved, some members of the former pact began to seek to join NATO
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Strategic arms reduction treaty was a treaty between US and USSR on the reduction and limitation on strategic offensive arms.
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Was a dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two nations came closest to nuclear conflict.
