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The United States and Soviet Union were allies in World War II and had unsettled issues from the war. It was a war for power between the U.S and Sovoiet Union.
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http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm Great Britian and the United States supplied 13,000 tons of food and supplies to West Berlin.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_in_the_Cold_War The Soviets declare their zone of Germany to be the German Democratic Republic in East Berlin.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_in_the_Cold_WarNorth Korea invades South Korea.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_in_the_Cold_WarThe U.S launches the first nuclear submarine which becomes the ultimate uclear deterrent.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_in_the_Cold_War The first satellite launched into outerspace which started the Space Race.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_in_the_Cold_WarThe CIA tries to invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro, but was unsuccessful.
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http://csrmedia.education.asu.edu/Lectures/SS3/HistoryCore/Basic9/index.htm This was a 13 day standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_in_the_Cold_War The U.S accomplishes the first "on foot" moon landing from Neil Armstrong.
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http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm President Nixon was the first U.S president to visit China. His reason for visitng was because the U.S was trying to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War.
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http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/03-cold-war-timeline.htm The Strategic Defense Initiative was a ground-based and space-based system used to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
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http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm The Berlin Wall was built to keep East and West Germany seperate so that the citizens would not intermingle during the Cold War. It was taken down in 1989 because the Cold War was coming to an end and re-unify the East and West.
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The presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, signed the Belavezha Accords, which declared the Soviet Union dissolved and established the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place.
