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Allied leaders met outside of Berlin. President Harry Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill , and Premier Joseph Stalin gathered to demand the surrender of Japan and set up a framework for postwar Europe. Each leader was trying to get the strongest position and the most influence for his own country, but the countries divided. The Potsdam Conference set up a competition between the United States and Great Britain, and the communist Soviet Union. This grew into the Cold War.
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United States,Canada, and many European countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty
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On June 25, the Korean war began, they were fighting to prevent the soviet union from spreading communism to the south of Korea
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Chinese troops had entered the war
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Chinese and North Korea begin a second attack
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Talk of peace had begun
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An agreement was signed between the 2 countries, they remained divided and over 2 million lives were lost
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Conflict led to division of Vietnam and when they wanted to reunite they had different opinions on government.
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The Warsaw Pact was for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.The treaty was signed on May 14, 1955.
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The alliance built up their military strength they had many nuclear weapons that were good at scaring the Soviet away.
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NATO weakened after France and Britain unsuccessfully attempted to take the Suez Canal back,
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Soviet Union launched Sputnik, earth's first artificial satellite.
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U.S. launched its first satellite Vanguard, which failed.
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Communist rebels began to fight Diem's government
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Americans successfully sent the Explorer up to space.
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Missiles were found in Cuba by american planes.
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The Americans had confronted Cuba about the missiles that were found
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John Kennedy told the Americans about the missiles in Cuba and set up a blockade.
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The Soviet union stopped short of the blockade america formed
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The peace, that was offered on the 26th was accepted.
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Diem was murdered
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North Vietnam attacked a US warship
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France withdrew from the alliance
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US had 500,000 troops helping South Vietnam, to reduce the impact of communism in the countries
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President Johnson(US)ended the bombing of Vietnam
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US had cut back military going into the war.
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War ended and Vietnam reconnected under a communist government.
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Missiles were built and sent up to space by America and the Soviet Union to stay safe
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All of the change in the Soviet Union started with the new leader Gorbachev
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Over time they became more open to ideas, less communist, and new parliaments were made. Gorbachev had wanted to do multi-candidate elections reduce the communist party and they wanted to become even with the other countries and have more economic control. The word glastnost means openness and perestroika means restructuring.
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In July 1990 NATO and Warsaw Pact leaders signed a major arms control treaty and declared that they were no longer adversaries.
