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Conference between the head of the United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, to discuss Germany and Europe's postwar organization.
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The U.S. and USSR compete to produce new weaponry, most known: Atomic Bomb.
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Tension between the two world super powers the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. grows after world war two, sparking a war of fear for people all over the world.
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Purpose was to counter the Soviet Union's expansion of communism after World War II
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US attempts to stop the expansion of communism in Korea.
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Joseph Stalin dies in Kuntsevo Dacha, Soviet Union, and the age of 74
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Nakita Khrushchev is elected the leader of the Soviet Union
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North Vietnam invades South Vietnam in hopes to spread communism
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Soviet Union and the United States race to explore space
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USSR launches Sputnik 1 into space
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Gary Powers was sent on a mission to fly a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, this plane gets shot down and Gary Powers is held captive in the Soviet Union.
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The U.S. secretly sends in people in to Soviet influenced Cuba, attempt to drive out communism, this invasion fails for many different reasons.
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The Berlin wall was built to keep people from entering and exiting east Berlin.
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Soviet Union places nuclear missiles in Cuba, which sky rockets the fear of a nuclear strike on the U.S.
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The US deployed troops, US enters war
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USA lands the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong
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Soviet government leader Leonid Brezhnev order the invasion on Afghanistan.
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The Berlin Wall was torn down, as the people of Berlin celebrated its fall.
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Mikhail Gorbachev is elected the leader of the Soviet Union
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union.
