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Start of Cold War. Big Three met to discuss German surrender & Stalin promised free elections
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USA would provide military & economic aid to countries threatened by Communism
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US economic recovery for war-torn Europe proposed by George Marshall including $13 billion in US loans
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Soviets block entrances to Berlin & cut off Aliied supplies to West Berlin
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US & British airplanes fly supplies into West Berlin
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Compete in building Nuclear Weaspons
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UN sent forces to stop Communist spread and aggresstion
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The death of Joseph Stalin
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Vietnma divided into a Northern Communist state and a Southern Republic state
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battle for Supremacy in spaceflight ability
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U-2 American spy plane shot down by USSR
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Cuban exiles lead revolt again Castro ordered by President Kennedy
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Built for keeping East Germans from fleeing to West Germany
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USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
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USSR 10 year war against Afghan rebels
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First nuclear arms control agreement to actually reduce nuclear arms, rather than establish ceilings that could not be exceeded.
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President who help put end to cold war
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Germany unified as one
