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This is the begining of some conflicts between the Americans and the USSR
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The Cold war was marked by continous rivalry between two World War allies, the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Ten Western European nations joined the US and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty organization. An anti-Soviet military alliance.
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The Berlin Blockade was the frst major crisis of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin.
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The United States begins Operation Vittles, the 11th month Berlin Airlift, which brings nessary supplies into the city by plane.
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The Soviet Union formed a Communist military alliance intented to counter the threat posed by the West's North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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The Soviet Union detonates its first tomic bomb, causing shock and fear in the US
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The stop of a large scale open warfare between the Allies and the communist side until the Vietnam war.
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Chinese leader Mao Zendong decieds China should build its own nuclear bomb
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China begins the Great Leap Forward, a plan to industrialize the nation.
