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Despite U.S. efforts, mainland China became a Communist People's Republic.
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the United States announced it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb.
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First Secretary of the Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, ultimately consolidated power and became the de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
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the Soviet Union concluded a military defensive alliance known as the Warsaw Pact with Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
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Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
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Following World War II, the United States administered the southern occupation zone in Korea, while the Soviets administered the northern zone.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Atomic Energy Act in August 1954 to authorize the international exchange of information on the peaceful uses of atomic energy, and endorsed the development of commercial nuclear power.
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This marked the beginning of a brief loosening of the most stringent forms of censorship in the Soviet Union.
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After the United States reneged on a deal to finance the building of the Aswan Dam, Egypt seized and nationalized the Suez Canal, through which the West received its oil supplies.
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The United States sponsored UN resolutions condemning the Soviet invasion, and called for the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops.
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the Soviets beat the United States into space by successfully launching the first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit.
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he Soviets beat the United States into space by successfully launching the first man-made earth satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. A month later, the Soviets sent up another satellite, this time carrying a dog.
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politicians warned of the dangers of Soviet superiority in technology and science, and speculated that the Soviets might possess superior missile stockpiles.
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While Stalin's death in 1953 slightly relaxed tensions, the situation in Europe remained an uneasy armed truce.
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Just before he left, Khrushchev addressed the American people on national television. This was first visit to the United States of a Soviet leader since the establishment of U.S.-Soviet relations in 1933.
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he two leaders agreed to expand exchanges and to remove the Soviet deadline for a Berlin settlement, but no progress was made on disarmament or the reunification of Germany.
