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World War II ended and the Cold War started. The Cold War was between the worlds superpowers, Soviet Union and United States. This war was not a physical battle. It was fought by using propaganda, economics, and politics. It was significant because it involved two very power countries fighting against communism.
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Winston Churchill made this speech to warn America and the Western world of the threat by Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union.
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The main cause of the Berlin Blockade was the Cold War, which was just getting started.
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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 began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States came to the aid of South Korea.
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The Vietnam War was fought between South and North Vietnam because of the spread of communism.
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The treaty was signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members.
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1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin.
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Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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North Vietnam won the war and continued to spread communism.
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The Berlin Wall was torn down as a symbol of the fall of the repressive East German communist government. When East Germans were finally allowed to freely enter West Germany, on Nov. 9, 1989, thousands of Germans responded emotionally by demolishing the wall
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East and West Berlin were reunited, and joined the Federal Republic as a city.
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.