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American airplanes dropped food and materials to West Berlin and Britian, France because Stalin had Berlin blockaded off
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Was a U.S.-sponsored program to provide economic aid to European countries after World War II. The idea of a European self-help plan financed by the U.S. was proposed by George Marshall in 1947 and was authorized by Congress as the European Recovery Program.
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Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin ordered a blockade of West Berlin, which was deep within Communist East Germany. Unable to provide supplies to the city, but neither would we back down to let Soviet expansion take place. so the united states called for the creation of NATO
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China became communist becuase it didnt want to be seen as owned and because of its previous weak democratic government. Chinese government wanted to control the country by itself without having others to interfere.
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A conflict that lasted to long between South Korea and North Korea. With the North Korea being aided by China and the Soviet Union and South Korea being aided by the U.S., Britian and United Nations but mostly consisting primarily of U.S. troops.
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The U.S. creates and drops the first hydroden bomb on Marshall Islands, also in the Pacific.
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A Cold War-era military conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.This being one of the worst wars in American history.The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities.
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Small inlet on the Caribbean Sea on Cuba's southern coast 1,500 landed and attempted to overthrow the governmaen of Fidel Castro.
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the Berlin wall goes up to keep out west Germans and to keep east Germans from escaping communism
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This was major confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. A U.S. spy plane detected a ballistic missile on a launching site in Cuba
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In the race between the Soviet Union and the United States to get a man on the moon the U.S. succeeded this day making Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon
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Soviet Union calls for a Military alliance between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, formed in response to West Germany's entry into NATO
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This game marked the second time that the United States' men's team did not win the gold medal in Olympic basketball; the Soviet Union won the gold in the women's competition and Yugoslavia in the men's tournament. Nothing like the Dresm team!!!
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the war was over and USSR had begun to collapse and large protests against the wall after years lead to fall of the Berlin Wall
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After 45 years of division, East and West Germany reunited just four days short of East Germany’s 41st founding anniversary. The new united Germany took the name the Federal Republic of Germany.
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the Soviet union collapsed because of there Socialism failed economically and being in Competition with the West wantind they wanted equality with USA, but had no money. Party officials were killed for personal gain, weakening the party.
