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A war of high tensions, mainly between Russia and the United States.
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The first of two atomic bombs ever dropped in the history of war. It is asumed to have killed 90,000 to 166,000 within the first day.
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After the U.S dropped two atomic bombs on japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the emporer of Japan surrendered, ending WW2.
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The Marshall Plan is a help system designed by the United States to help Europian countries after the events of WW2.
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The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to block out any Allies from getting to Berlin and supply food for their controlled parts of the city. This would mean that the Soviets have to supply resources for the entire city, giving them full control over Berlin.
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NATO was created as a Political organization, but as the cold war progressed they became a force to "keep Americans in, Russians out, and Germans down."
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This was a war between the Republic of Korea( which was supported by the U.S) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (supported by the People's Republic of China, with military and material aid from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
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The Warsaw Pact was deigned as a mutual defence treaty between the eight Communist states of eastern Europe
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The Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satalite launched into orbit around the earth. This event started the Space race and the Space age.
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often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth.Gagarin was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour.
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The berlin Wall is a wall built by the German Democratic Republic to completly cut off west Berlin from east Berlin
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The Cuban Missle Crisis was an operation by the Soviet Union and cuba that put missles in cuba that could attack the United states very easily.
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This bomb, codenamed 569, was the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test. it was located at the Lop Nur test site
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The First manned moon landing served as a way to capture public imagination. also, there were originally plans to try and build a military base on the moon.
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The SALT treaty (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) were signed saying that both US and USSR are to freeze the number of nuclear missles at the existing numbers.
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Star Wars is a space based defensive system to defend the US from any ballistic missles.
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The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges
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Due to radical changes in politics and an increase in Soviet support by Poland and Hungary, the East-German government decided to allow people to cross the wall.
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After 36 years in existence, the Warsaw Pact, the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites, comes to an end. The action was yet another sign that the Soviet Union was losing control over its former allies and that the Cold War was falling apart.
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After the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics.
