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The U.S., soviet union, the U.K., and France agreed to split Germany into four zones of occupation after the war
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It was created to try and maintain international peace and security after WWII
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People become conspiracy theorists and thought the soviets were spying
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President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to prevent communist domination of the two nations.
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It was the Soviet Unions attempt to limit the ability of the U.S. , Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin
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NATO was originally created to secure peace in Europe and to guard their freedom
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The war started when Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in an attack at several strategic points along the 38th panel
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It git rid of Fulgencio Batista's regime and established a new Cuban Government led by Fidel Castro in 1959
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The Vietnam War was the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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The space race was a competition between the U.S. and the soviet union. They were developing aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight
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German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They captured Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia
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It was fought between Afghanistan rebels which were called the Mujahideen and the Soviet supported Afghanistan government
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Its was an explosion cause by a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification
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Several republics began resisting central control, and increasing democratization led to a the government falling. The Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991 when Boris Yeltsin seized power in the aftermath of a failed coup that had attempted to topple reform-minded Gorbachev.
