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This is a time of tension between the USA and the USSR, although there was no fighting
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The British Prime Minister at the time, gave speeches about the so-called "Iron Curtain." These speeches supposedly started the Cold War
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People were scared of communism for a period of time called The Red Scare that lasted about ten years
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The Berlin Airlift was created in West Berlin to fly in much needed supplies for East Berlin. The rulers of East Berlin had cut off all ways in and out of the Eastern Bloc, except the sky
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The alliance called NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was created in 1949
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Some East Germans did not want to be communist and 300,000 East Gemans fled to West Berlin and eventually all of West Germany.
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The Warsaw pact was created in1955.
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The Red Scare has ended
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The Berlin Wall stood 28 years and was erected in 1961. The wall split the city of Berlin in two. The East Germans referred to it as the Anti-Facsist Protection Rampart while the West Germans referred to it as the Wall of Shame.
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The USSR put nuclear missiles in Cuba and there was a 13 day stand-off between the USA and the USSR. In the end, the USSR took the missiles out of Cuba
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Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power in the USSR and begins to ease the communist policies
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The Berlin Wall was destroyed by eager West Germans
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Germany is reunified
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In 1991, the USSR fell and split into 15 seperate democratic countries: Armenia, Azerjaban, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
