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United States sendt supplies to West Berlin by plane duing the Soviet's blockade.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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North Korea invades South Korea and the United States gets involved to keep South Korea from turning communist as part of the containment policy to keep communisum from spreading.
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The United States creates the hydrogen bomb, which is a type of nuclear weapon.
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Pact between the countries that made up the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet Union launches the sattalite Sputnik into space.
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The Soviet Union built a wall seperating East and West Berlin to keep people from fleeing into West Berlin.
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Tension between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear weapons in Cuba. The Soviet Union removes weapons from Cuba and the United States removes them from Turkey.
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Agreement between United States and Soviet Union to lessen nuclear weapons.
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Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union and starts the perestrokia political movement of reform.
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NATO signs treaty that eliminated an enitre type of nuclear weapons.
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The Iron Curtain (seperation between free and communist Europe) begins to fall thanks to detente (the easing of tension between countries).
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The Soviet Union collapses and seperates into different countries.
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A political and economical union between 28 different countries in Europe.
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September 11th the Twin Towers are attacked by the terrorist group Al Qaeda.
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The United States military invades Iraq in order to arrest Saddam Hussien, the ruthless ex-leader of Iraq who commited mass killings against his people.
