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In December of 1922 the Soviet Union is formed after the Red Army won the Russian Civil War under the Bolshevik party and it's leader Vladimir Lenin.
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Joseph Stalin one of Lenin's closest advisors takes control of the Communist Party after the death of Lenin.
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The leaders of the 3 World superpowers at the time get together at Yalta to discuss the outcome of the war.
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The United States developed and later dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan causes them to unconditionally surrender and put an end to WW2.
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Right when it looked like Japan was going to lose, Russia joined the war to have saying power in what happens to Japan.
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The Empire of Japan unconditionally surrenders after the detonation of two atomic bombs dropped by the U.S.
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After WW2 Winston Churchill Prime Minister of Britian gives one of his most famous speeches about the dangers of communism.
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Russia blockades the democratic side of Belin from recieving aid and supplies from the U.S.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization developed to protect against outside threats.
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Soviets finally developed nuclear weapons and detonate their first atomic bomb.
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Mao Zedong a ruthless dictator takes control of China and turns it into a communistic state.
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A war between Democratic South Korea and communistic North Korea.
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Korean War ended with an armistice where both sides ceased-fire and had no real victor.
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The KGB secret russian police where created by a paranoid Stalin to get rid of his opponents.
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Warsaw pact was the opposite of NATO where the eastern communist countries signed a pact to defend against outside opposition.
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The Soviet Union lauched the first satellite into space starting the space race between them and the United States.
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Cuba taken over by the communist dictator Fidel Castro who was supported by the Soviet Union and was the closest Communsistic state to the U.S.
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The youngest and most vibrant President ever elected was John F. Kennedy also known as JFK. His competitor for the presidency that year was later president Richard Nixon.
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The construstion of a wall to seperate democractic Berlin from communistic Berlin was underway.
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It was verified that their where nuclear weapons in Cuba which was close enough to reach the United States. This began very serious negotiations between the U.S and USSR to remove the nuclear weapons from Cuba and Turkey.
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Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade.
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The United States lands the first man on the moon offically winning the space race and fufilling JFK's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the decade.
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The Vietnam War between North Communist Vietnam and South Democractic Vietnam comes to a cease-fire halting the war.
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President Richard Nixon resigns the office after the infamous Watergate Scandal in which he supposedly cheated to win the election and later lied about his involvment.
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Communist North officially defeats Democratic South Vietnam.
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He was the first (and last) president of the Soviet Union from 1990 until its dissolution in 1991.
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After nearly a decade of fighting after they invaded Afghanistan the Soviet troops are defeated and withdrawl from the country.
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The Berlin Wall is torn down reuniting Berlin.
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With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 the Cold War ofiicially is put to an end.
