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On February 9th, 1946, Joseph Stalin gave his election speech. In his election, he states that capitolism and imperialism make future wars inevidable.
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On March 5th, 1946, Winston Churchill warned Britain about the Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain was a barrier put up by the Soviet Union to stop the influence of Western Culture.
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On March 12, 1947, President Truman announced the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine gave aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent them from falling to the Soviets.
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On February 25, 1948, The Communist party took over. This meant that more communist countries joined the Soviet Union.
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On April 3rd, 1948, Truman signed the Marshall plan. In total, the United States gave 12.4 Billion dollars to European countries as economic assistance.
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On June 24th, 1948, Stalin ordered a blockade of West Berlin to West Germany, trying to starve the civilians. In response, the three western powers launch the Berlin Airlift.
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On April 4th, 1949, NATO was formed. NATO was an alliance between many western countries to stop communism.
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On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union succesfully tests their first Nuclear bomb. The test was called Joe 1, and it put the USSR as the worlds second nuclear power.
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On April 17-19th, 1961, the CIA backed counter-revolutionaries in Cuba. This method ended up becoming a failure.
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On December 31st, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased operations. After time of many democratic revolutions in Eastern European countries, the Soviet Union collapsed.
