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Czechoslovakian takeover
Joseph Stalin brought soviet troops to czechoslovakia and demanded them to turn into a all-communist government. -
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Berlin Blockade & Airlift
The soviet union put a blockade on Berlin trying to force the Allies to give up either Berlin or their plans for a West German state. Pilots delivered almost 2.5 million tons of supplies. -
Soviets explode first atomic bomb
The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb. -
Communist takeover of China
Communism took over China. -
NATO Ratified
North Atlantic Treaty Organization they pledged to consider an attack on any member as an attack on all and fored a standing army to defend Western Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. -
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Korean War
The Korean was was fought by South Korea and the United Nations vs North Korea and the Soviet Union. -
U.S. explodes H-bomb
The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. -
Warpact signing
A mutual defense treaty between 8 communist states of central and eastern Europe during the Cold war. -
Invasion of Hungary
Hungary revolted against the communist government, And so the Soviet forces went to destroy the armed resistance. -
Suez crisis over Aswan Dam
The U.S. and Britain were going to finance the building of the Dam but then pulled their money out.
