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Joseph Stalin brought soviet troops to czechoslovakia and demanded them to turn into a all-communist government.
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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.
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The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb.
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Communism took over China.
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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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The Korean was was fought by South Korea and the United Nations vs North Korea and the Soviet Union.
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The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific.
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A mutual defense treaty between 8 communist states of central and eastern Europe during the Cold war.
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Hungary revolted against the communist government, And so the Soviet forces went to destroy the armed resistance.
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The U.S. and Britain were going to finance the building of the Dam but then pulled their money out.
