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Although there were strains between the two nations before WW2, cooperation between them ceased to exist after WW2 ended.
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The Marshall Plan was a foreign aid program provided by Americans for Western Europe. It was meant to bring them back to their feet and provide stability for them to prevent them from turning to Communism. -
The States began airlifting food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blocked other entryways.
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Containment was an American policy that was meant to stop and prevent the spread of communism abroad. -
After WW2 much of Europe was lacking the support and supplies they needed so Germany was split into 4 powers; America, Britain, France, and the Soviets. The Soviets took up the Eastern half while the other 3 powers ran the Western half. -
This was a war between Northern and Southern Korea. The Northern Korea Communist army invaded non-communist Southern Korea. China sent an army over because they were worried the US wanted to use North Korea as a base.
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The United States set off a hydrogen bomb on an island in the Pacific. The Russian's development of an atomic bomb encouraged America to proceed with developing an H-bomb. -
The Warsaw pact was created in Warsaw, Poland as a reaction to NATO. Both NATO and Warsaw led to the expansion of military forces. The nations who took part in Warsaw were The Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
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The Vietnam war was a long war between communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam and its ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified because of the Cold War.
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The Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site. -
A theory of peaceful co-existence for the United States and USSR, stating that they could co-exist rather than fighting. Khrushchev tried to demonstrate this by attending peace conferences.
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The Hungarian Uprising was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-inspired policies.
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The Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, which shocked experts in the States as they had thought America would be the first to achieve this. -
Cuban exiles who were against Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution attempted and failed a landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba
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The Berlin Wall was built to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East-Berlin to West-Berlin. It divided Berlin into two very contrasting zones. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that escalated into an international crisis when the Soviets had deployed missiles in Cuba. This is the closest that the cold war had come to turning into a nuclear war.
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The hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union was established to reduce the threat of an accidental nuclear war. -
This treaty banned nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, underwater, or in space. The only place allowed for this is underground. -
This was a partially successful attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city of Prague from German occupation during WW2. -
The PRC was admitted into the UN on a vote of 76 in favor, 35 opposed, and 17 abstentions -
The SALT treaty was signed with the intention to restrain the arms race in strategic ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons -
The Helsinki Accords was an agreement signed by 35 nations that concluded the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The treaty meant these nations should respect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to cooperate in economic, scientific, humanitarian, and other areas.
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The Soviets invaded Afghanistan wanting to set up their communist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. -
Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent, anti-communist social movement that, at its height, claimed around 9.4 million members. It is considered to have contributed greatly to the fall of communism -
President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative. This project would construct a space-based anti-missile system. -
The Intermediate-Range-Nuclear Forces Treaty prohibited all U.S. and Soviet missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. -
The events that demolished the Iron Curtain started with peaceful opposition in Poland and continued into Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. -
It fell due to a wave of revolutions that left the Soviet-led communist bloc weak and failing, and helped define a new world order.
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The German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany. -
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was signed by the U.S and the Soviet Union. It was a bilateral treaty on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms. -
Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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