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Karl marx published a book which became a best seller talking about communism.
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The goal of the revolution is to overthrow the Romanovs and give mother russia to the people.
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Starts taking procautions
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This occurs after the fall of nazism in Europe
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Albania, Bulgaria, Czechelslozakia, East Germany, Hangary, Romania, and Poland all join the Russians to create the U.S.S.R.
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Tension rises beteen U.S. and U.S.S.R.
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East and west Germany is split by a large blockade now known as the Berlin Wall.
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West Germany is closed off by the Soviet Union and people are starving. U.S. and Britan airlift supplies in and finally convince the soviets to break down the blockade in 1949
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starts Cuban missile crisis
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the cold war ends