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The war took place in 1947 and 1991
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Truman declares an active role in the Greek civil war.
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Marshall plan is announced to help countries fight poverty.
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President Truman aprroves the development of the H-Bomb.
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The Korean war officially comes to an end.
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The Warsaw Pact is officially formed.
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Nikita Khrushchev begins destalinization.
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The soviets successfully launched the world's first satellite, starting the space race.
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The soviets successfully launch the Sputnik satellite into orbit.
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Fidel Castro takes over as the leader of Cuba.
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The Soviet Union shot down a U.S.A spy plane that they detected in their area.
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JFK approves the invasion, the invasion fails and JFK denies giving approval.
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The berlin wall is built by the soviets.
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The soviet union and the U.S.A had a nuclear standoff threatening eachother.
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Apollo 11 successfully lands on the moon.
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President Nixon extends the Vietnam war to Cambodia.
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SALT I is officially signed.
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President Nixon officially resigns from office.
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The communist khmer rouge take over Cambodia and genocide ensues.
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SALT II is officially signed.
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The Soviets try to invade Afghanistan.
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Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power and creates openness called glasnost and restructuring called perestroika.
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Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all of their missles from the nearby countries that were aimed at the other rivaling country.
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The soviets begin to withdraw from Afghanistan after defeat.
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The berlin wall is demolished and east and west germany compromise.
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Boris Yeltsin is elected as Russian president.
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The soviet union comes to an official end along with the cold war.