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Soviet Union was born out of the russian revolution.
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Joseph Stalin seized control of multiple eastern european nation
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Germany Surredered in 1945 and was divided into two parts. Soviets into the east, and allies into the west.
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Stalin ordered a blockade around the city of berlin =, to try to starve out the allies. The allies simply airlifted supplies over instead.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization established.
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This alliance of the Soviet union, Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, Rumainia, and East Germany, with the same conditions as the NATO had established. This practically divided the coold war into two seperate teams.
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Soviets built the berlin wall to try to divide europe, and prevent people from escaping the soviets into freedom.
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Spy planes found secret nucluer missile base in cuba, and americans realised that these missiles had they been launched would reachthe us in a matter of merely minutes. Ths started the cuiban missile crisis
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Johnson had placed over 500,000 troops in vietnam to fight in the war reinforcingthe already large force in vietname.
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US withdrew there final troops from vietnam under a peace agreemnet
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Gorbachev took office and reformed the soviet union, by implementing glasnost