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It was made by Henry Truman to assure to all democratic nations under threat of authoritarian forces, that we would provide political, military, and economic assistance.
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The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to Berlin. Because of the Berlin Blockade, people of West Berlin without food.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an alliance between certain North American and European countries.
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In 1950, the Korean War started because the North Korean army invaded the South Koreans. North Korea was communist and South Korea was not. There wasn't any winners.
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It started when North Korea invaded South Korea. North Korea had the Soviet Union and China, while South Korea had the United States.
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After Stalin dies, Khrushchev takes over Russia.
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Joseph Stalin died from a cerebral hemorrage when he was 74 years old.
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An armistice was agreed upon and brought the war to an end.
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The north government and the Viet Cong was fighting to reunite Vietnam.
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Competition between the Soviet Union and the US for the dominance in spaceflight capability.
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President Eisenhower sent a spy plane to the Soviet Union. The Soviet shot down the plane and captured the pilot of the plane. The pilot was Gary Powers.
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President Kennedy ordered Cuban exiles living in the US to go back to Cuba to start a revolution against Communism. It failed and the exiles were taken POWs.
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They wanted to build it to prevent East Germans from escaping to the West. The Germans in the east wanted to escape because East Germany was a communist government while West Germany was a democracy.
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It banned the testing of nuclear weapons in space, underwater, or in the atmosphere.
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The capture of Saigon by the North's army was the end of the war.
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As the Cold War was slowing down, the East and the West sides of Germany decided to take down the wall so they could unite and become one.
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Soon after the wall was taken down, the two sides of Germany officially reunited.
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There oil and gas revenue declined dramatically, so they lost some of their power with Eastern Europe. When Gorbachev resigned as leader, the Soviet Union had officially collapsed.
