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The Cold War began in 1945 when the Soviet Union and the US sparked a dispute. Within this year Russia defeated both Germany and Japan. US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki. In this time President Truman comes into office after Roosevelt dies.
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The Berlin Blockade began in 1948 and lasted all of eleven months.
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The Berlin Blockade ends this year, and the Soviet Union becomes the world's second nuclear power.
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The Korean war begsn in 1950. North Korea envades South Korea with support of Soviet weapons.
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The US explodes their first hydrogen bomb, and Great Britain develops atomic bombs
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In 1953 the Korean War ended. The Soviet Union fires their first hydrogen bomb
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The Warsaw Pact was formed that declared peaceful coexistence.
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Cuba becomes a communist state in 1959.
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France developed atomic bombs in 1960 and John F. Kennedy was elected into office.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba takes place. The Berlin border is closed. Soviets build the Berlin wall. US send military to Vietnam.
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JFK was assassinated. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was ratified prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons anywhere except underground. This treat was signed by the US, USSR and the UK
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The US becomes openly involed in Vietnam providing military support.
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President Nixon is elected into office and extends the Vietnam War to Cambodia
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Nixon resigns and the Yom Kippur War begins where Egypt and Syria attack Isreal.
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The US and China establish diplomatic relations. the USSR invades Afghanistan
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President Reagan was inagurated as the 40th US President
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Reagan proposes the Strategic Defense Initiative
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The Soviet troops withdrawl from Afghanistan. The Berlin wall is demolished. Communist governments began to fall and this marks the start of the decline of the Soviet empire.
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In 1990 Germany is reunified.
The Gulf war begins when Iraq envades Kuwait -
The Gulf War ends. And the Soviet union comes to a demise.