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Big three met to decide what to do with Germany
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It was a race between the Soviets and The United States to see who could build the best nuclear weapons and the fastest.
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Plan t aid Western Europe, gave $13 billion, to help rebuild Western European economies.
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Allies flew over Berlin Blockade and into West Berlin to give supplies to them.
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Try to cut off West Berlin so it would fall and that East Germany would get all of Berlin.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization is established
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Shocked America because they were not expecting the USSR to catch up with them weapon wise
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Started when 75,000 North Korean soldiers crossed into South Korea.
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Died from Heart Attack
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About 778,000 casualties from South Korea and 1.1-1.5 million casualties from North Korea
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Long costly war, started over the spread of communist
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Soviets launched Sputnik into Space
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Race to get the most equipment into space and first to send a man to space.
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Spy plain, flown by Gary Powers, was shot down in Russia. Ended up trading a Russian spy for Powers.
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USA trained Cuban Exiles to start a revolution in Cuba but failed.
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Built to keep the Eastern Berliners in East Berlin and out of West Berlin. Build by the communists.
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Soviets tried sending nuclear missiles to Cuba but stopped by The USA.
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Berlin Wall was torn down by berlin citizens when the East German Communist Party said the citizens could cross the border freely.
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German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany