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Soviet Union, Britain, Soviet Union met in Yalta to plan their remaining wartime actions and the future for postwar Europe.One key principle agreed to at Yalta was that, after the war, European countries would be able to have free elections and decide their own futures. This caused long-term global tension and disharmony.
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Stalin, Truman, and Churchill met in Britain to discuss the reparations in Germany. This extended the rivalry between Truman and Stalin.
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The US sends a nuclear bomb to japan
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The US sends another bomb to Japan
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Truman's policy that wanted the stop the SU expansion by creating alliances and giving aid. Countries turned to capitalism.
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American plan to help countries affected by the war in Europe. countries accepted to be democratic by accepting this plan which decreased the sphere of influence of the SU.
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Involved bilateral trade agreements that helped to consolidate the economies of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania – solidifying the Soviet presence in Europe.
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Five western european countries decided to come together and protect and each other. This led the creation of NATO which protected west Berlin from communist values.
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Stalin blocked all passageways to west Berlin cutting off supplies from america.
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Soviet Union started to created weapons as a response to America creating nuclear weapons as well. This led the the cuban missile crisis and brinkmanship.
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Union to protect and give economic aid to democratic countries. the soviet sphere of influence became smaller
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war between South Korea and North Korea because of their opposing political beliefs
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Stalin died in the SU but this did not stop the communism.
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Counteraction to NATO. Military strength increased alarming the capitalist countries
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US fighting against communist farmers, communist won which meant more communism.
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Hungarians against communism, less communist presence
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Aerospace warning, aerospace control and maritime warning for North America, in case the soviets launched a missile, tension grew bigger during this times.
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Castro led a communist revolution against Batista in Cuba which extended the communist presence in the world. Cuba served as a place in which the soviets could deposit their nuclear weapons.
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America trained cubans to overthrow the communist presence in cuba but the operation failed.
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Wall between west and east Germany that intended to protect the west from the east, and the east from the west.
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SU took out their missiles in Cuba
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Afghanistan against communist beliefs, less communist sphere of influence
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Movement that aimed for more worker rights in Poland, communism was being rejected.
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peaceful protest to end the communist presence in Czechoslovakia
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Wall disappeared, Germany was back together again
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war ended