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The Soviets started experimenting with nuclear technology in 1943, and first tested a nuclear weapon in August 1949.
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies
February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta,
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The last of the Allied conferences took place from 17 July to 2 August 1945 in Potsdam.
Divided Germany into three zones
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was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Europe and Asia that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union.
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program providing aid to Western Europe
brought extensive investment into the region
where: Harvard University
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union
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The Korean War was a war that happened between North and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.
effect:The war was disastrous for all of Korea, destroying most of its industry and between 3 or 4 million people died.
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where, Moscow
effect: things got nicer
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The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959
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a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.
when:1955
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The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States.
effect: staggering death toll. The war killed an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians.
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It was against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies.
effect:resulted in the USSR's standing in the countries of Western Europe falling to its lowest level since the Second World War.
when:1956
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command was a pact made in 1957
is binational military command responsible for aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning.
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built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin
Affect: l divided families who found themselves unable to visit each other.
when: 1961
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was an abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro
affect: The disaster at the Bay of Pigs had a lasting impact on the Kennedy administration
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The crisis was over but the naval quarantine continued until the Soviets agreed to remove their IL28 bombers from Cuba.
when:1962
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty.
when:1968
effect: The nuclear arms race resulted in widespread anxiety for both the American and Soviet peoples.
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the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978.
effect:It changed the perceptions of leaders about the efficacy of using the military to hold the empire together and to intervene in foreign countries
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fall of the Berlin Wall refers to the formal opening of the border between Soviet-controlled, Communist East Berlin and Western-occupied West Berlin in 1989.
effect:The Berlin Wall dismantling saw anti-communism, and communism intolerance.
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During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections.
when:1991
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