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communism & capitalism were incompatible.
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U.S.S.R. developes its first atomic bomb and tests it in Moskow, Russia.
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Tensions between U.S.S.R. and the United States escalate with the test of atomic series 11 at the Nevada test site.
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The first H-bomb is developed and tested at Castle-Brovo site in the United States.
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Sputnik I, the first man-made, artificial satelite was launched by the Soviet Union.
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The Russian President Khrushchev, on his visit to the United States is denied access to Disneyland.
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France begins its development of the Atomic bomb
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U.S.S.R shoots down an American spy plane over Russian territory.
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The nuclear test ban treaty is ratefied.
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China develops and tests its first atomic bomb.
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United States Marines are sent into the Dominican Republic to fight communism.
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The soviet Red Army crushes the Checoslovokian revolt.
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the Soviet Red Army invades Afganistan.
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika."
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U.S.S.R president Gorbechev and U.S President Regan resolve to remove all short ranged missles.
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Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania.
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Boris Yeltsin elected as President of the U.S.S.R.
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Germany becomes reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The fall of the Soviet Union.
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Vice president Al Gore and the Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin sign the 1993 treaty and join together to build a space station.
