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The cooperation between Americans and Soviets ended at the end of WW2.
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The United States provides economic aid for Europe after WW2 in hopes to help restore economic infrastructure. -
Communists closed all travel routes leading to the city of Berlin, so they had to airlift all supplies and goods over communist borders.
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A U.S policy using many strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
The American, British, French, and Soviets divided Germany into 4 zones. American, French, and British made up the western two thirds of Germany and the soviets made up the eastern third. -
The first time the Soviet Union and the United States fought in a proxy war in a third country.
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The U.S creates and detonates the worlds first thermonuclear weapon, the H-bomb. -
Created in reaction NATO. It was established to balance out the power.
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The war between North and South Vietnam. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control over south Vietnam.
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The Soviet Union tested their first fusion-based device on a tower in central Siberia. -
The hammer and sickle flag was lowered for the last time. Afterwards the Russian flag replaced it. -
The idea is that the USSR and Americans could have a peaceful co-existence despite their differences instead of fighting one another.
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A nationwide revolution against the Hungarian people's republic and it's soviet imposed policies.
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The Soviet-Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik. -
The United States sent trained Cubans to Cuba to try to overflow Fidel Castro's government. They failed miserably.
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The Berlin wall was built by the Soviets that physically divided Berlin. The purpose of the wall was to keep democracy from spreading into the communist area. -
Soviet-Union began to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The united states refused to allow this. The 2 superpowers came very close to a nuclear war. Eventually the Soviet-Union agreed to remove the missiles.
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A hotline designed for America and the Soviets to have direct contact with one another. -
A treaty that which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons. -
A partially successful attempt by the Czech people to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation during WW2. -
China was admitted into the U.N on a vote of 76 in favour, 35 opposed, and 17 abstentions. -
For the first time during the cold war the Americans and the Soviets agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenal. -
Primarily an effort to reduce tension between the Soviet and the Western Bloc. -
The Soviets tried to invade Afghanistan and went on a 9 year war with them. -
The Polish used civil resistance to advance the causes of workers rights and social change. -
A missile defense system used to protect the United States from nuclear attacks. -
The Soviet-Union and the Americans permanently forswear all their nuclear missiles and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5500km. -
The Soviet-Union used all the little countries as a buffer zone to be protected by the Americans. -
Travel restrictions were supposed to be lightened so that east germans would have easier travel. Immediately the people of the east and west Berlin stormed the wall and began to take it down. -
Germany was reunited after the Berlin wall was torn down. -
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. The Americans and the Soviet Union agreed to reduce the amount of nuclear warheads in their arsenals.
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