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20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000
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22 kiloton 'Fat Man' kills 70,000
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"an "iron curtain" has descended on Europe"
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the US policy of fighting the spread of commuunism by limiting it to countries where it already existed
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A plan to help Europe recover from the war--- America sent them money
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one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control
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10 western European countries, the US, and Canada, formed NATO. In this agreement is was that upon an attack on any NATO country, they agreed, would be treated as an attack against them all
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Called for militay cooperation among the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czchoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, and East Germany. If any one of these nations were attacked, the others promised to come to its defense.
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In the civil war between the North and the South the U.S. supported the democratic south.
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In 1961, East Germany and the Soviet Union tried to stem the tide of East Germans fleeing to West Berlin by putting a wall between the two parts of the city.
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On April 17, about, 1400 Cuban exiles landed on a Cuban beach in the Bay of Pigs. Nothing went as planned. The Cuban people did not rise up in revolt, and the invaders were quickly killed or captured.
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This intelligence photograph proved that the Soviet Union had given Cuba nuclear missiles that could reach the United States in minutes. President Kenned insisted the Soviets remove the weapons. For 6 days, the world moved dangerously close to nuclear war. Then, the Soviet Union agreed to Kennedy's demand.
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Gorbachev came into power hoping to reform and make it work better.
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