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Allied leaders met up after WWII to discuss terms. After Roosevelt's death, Truman took charge and clashed with Stalin's ideas. Thus, starting the Cold War. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf
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Joseph Stalin makes his election speech in which he gives the idea of imperalism and capitalism are the key to a better future. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/filmmore/reference/interview/zubok3.html
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Churchill delievers a speech speaking about an "Iron Curtain" which divided Europe into two separate sections: Warsaw Pact with Soviet Union as its leading state, and NATO on the other with the U.S as it's leading state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain
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Truman addressed that the U.S will give support to countries threatened by the Soviet Union or communism. Communists saw this as an open declaration of the Cold War. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-doctrine-is-announced
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It was a program in which the U.S would aid with $13 billion dollars to Western Europe and help prevent the spread of communism. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/marshall-plan
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One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. Soviet Union blocked Western Allies' canal and railroad access to Berlin. Later, resulting to the Berlin Airlift. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-blockade
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Soviet's blockade made the U.S respond with loading aircrafts with supplies for the people in West Berlin. Which angered the Soviet Union. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/berlin-airlift-begins
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An alliance that was created with the U.S being the leading country. Provided with aid, assistance, and anything financial within Allied powers. http://www.nato.int/history/nato-history.html
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"Fast Lightning" Was created and was dropped at a site that had fake buildings and animals in cages to test how the nuclear radiation would react on mammals. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-explode-atomic-bomb
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Soldiers crossed the 38th parallel, the boundary Soviet Union made. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. http://www.history.com/topics/korean-war
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The alliance, with Soviet Union being its leading country, includes countries that were in a collective defense treaty in Centeral and Western Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact
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Hungarian Revolution was caused because of Soviet Union's policies. It was the first Soviet control which resulted to a major threat. Te revolution caused the government to collapse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
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Along with the Space Arm Race, the Soviet Union was first to launch a satelite up in space. Causing great fear and shock for the people in the United States. Thinking the Soviet Union was ahead in technology. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-union-launches-sputnik-i
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Kennedy was given word that the Soviet Union had missles directed towards the U.S from Cuba. Arguments that occurred eventually resulting to them agreeing that Cuba would be left alone from both sides. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
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The Sovient's economy was decreasing dramatically. As the wall went down, showed that the Cold War was slowing dying out. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
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Soviet Union finally surrendered and is now Russia.
