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  An allied victory brings an end to Nazi Germany, but starts the cold war between the west and the east
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  US president Truman, Enacted a plan that gave 13 billion US dollars to help European "countries" get back on their feet.
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  The soviets blockade berlin from the allies, not allowing them to get vital supplies in or out
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  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was the west's way sticking together and fighting the communist threat.
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  America tried to stop the advance of socialism
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  This was the Soviets response to NATO.
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  The AMericans tried to stop the spread of socialism
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  Russian Leader Khrushchev calls for peaceful coexistence.
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  The Hungarian people revolted against the socialist Government.
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  This wall was put up to stop supposed Western expansion.
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  The soviets deployed missiles on cuba making them a direct threat to the US.
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  "liberation" of czechoslovakia
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  People did it want nukes being used so they said they would not
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  Was the final act of the security and cooperation in europe
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  people wanted democracy.
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  The leader of the East German Socialist party said all Germans can now cross the wall
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  The Russians decided the wanted Afghanistan.
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  dissolved the 36-year-old military alliance
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  The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union. It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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  START was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.