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The United States would aid Greece and Turkey so they wouldn't fall under Soviet power.
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Stalin wanted Berlin to become communism so he tried getting them to become communists by cutting off supplies but the U.S aided them with supplies.
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This is when the Soviet Union made their first atomic bomb and tested it.
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North Korea wanted South Korea to turn into communism but it never worked out. North Korea didn't get them to turn.
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A pact between eight communist states that have each other's backs if one gets attacked.
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba as a dictator and thus begins a long dictatorship under his power.
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France develops their first atomic bombs. They become one of the five nuclear weapons states.
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The construction of te Berlin Wall began to separate west and east Germany from each other.
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The treaty for Nuclear Weapon Testing to stop was approved which meant no more legal testing of weaponry.
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My mom was born and was the 5th child yet to be born at the time. My granparents named her Elva.
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The year of 1970 marked the first year my mom entered school.
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For her 6th birthday, my mom received her first pet which was a dog. She was the only one who owned a pet out of the whole family.
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At the age of 10, she competed in the spelling bee and won.
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in 1978, my mom got her first job at a grocery store.
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My mom recieved her first car at the age of 15. She says it was her favorite color.
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My mom graduated high school as the highest ranking student in her class.
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At the age of 19, my mom met my dad for the first time ever.
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My mom had her first child which is my older sister. She was born in Honduras.
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in 1990, it was my mom's firt year of teaching at a school to a kindergarten class.
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Supporters of Communism stage an unsuccessful coup. Soviet Union is then abolished and Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.
