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This race was a competition between the U.S and the Soviet Union and their respective allies for supremacy during the war.
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On this day President Truman warned his secretary of state "Another war is in the making". This is when the U.S was going to war with the Soviet Union.
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The Truman Doctrine was created because the Soviet-backed Communist were threatening Greece and Turkey. This document stated that the U.S would provide economic and military aid to oppose the spread of communism.
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The NATO was the formation of the U.S, Canada, and most European countries into an alliance. It was designed to counter Soviet power in Europe.
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The Soviet Union and the Commust nations of Eastern Europe formed their own alliance, known as the Warsaw Pact.
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As the U.S and Soviet Union advanced in weapon technology, they also advanced in spacecraft. With this advancment the U.S and Soviets had a race to see who could get a man to the moon first.
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Hundreds of thousdands of East Germans would migrate to West Germany causing their population to decrese. Due to this decrease East Germany issued a barbed wire fence to block the border entrance, this eventually turned into the Berlin Wall.
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The U.S is worried becuase the Soviet Union and Cubans were said to have Nuclulear Missles which the U.S was scared if tested the bombs would reach the Ameircans.
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Thousands of East Germans migrated to Western Europe, causing the East German government to open the Berlin Wall, breaking it forever and ending this blockade.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet-backed regimes in Eastern Europe showed the dramatic crumbling of Soviet power. Due to this more up rising for freedom rose.
