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This also ends American-Soviet relations
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Truman uses this to contain soviet expansion
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Resulted in the airlift which increased tensions
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NATO created to deter any aggression from the Soviet bloc
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USSR fails to show up at a veto in the UN which causes the first proxy war.
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Russia's response to the creation of NATO
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Krushchev calls for peaceful coexistence
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Demonstrates that the Warsaw Pact is not ideologicaly unified
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Berlin Wall is built to prevent further western expansion
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Almost causes nuclear war due to brinkmanship
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Ends when the USSR invades and then followed by the Brezhnev Doctrine
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Nuclear nonproliferation treaty is signed
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Vietnam war ends demonsrating the failure of containment and the domino theory
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Helsinki accords provide a degree of détente
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan leads to more hostility
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Solidarity trade union organizes pro democratic movement in Poland
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The Berlin Wall is torn down and Germany is reunified
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The Warsaw Pact is dissolved and the some members seek to join NATO
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START signed to reduce nuclear weapons being created
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The USSR dissolves ending the Cold War
