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The Soviet Union
Serval countries came together to form the Soviet Union, which was composed of farm, work and business, a communist state which, due to the fact of being a communist state, made many countries keep a eye on it -
The Arms Race
A competition occurred to develop and manufacture more and more powerful weapons, such as nuclear bombs, between the Soviet Union and the U.S, one the of the countries hoping to gain a upper hand in power -
The Beginning of the Iron Curtain
The prime minsiter of Great Britain used the term of a "iron curtain" to describe how the Soviet Union was beginning to take over land and put a "iron curtain" around this land, keeping it from everything around it, other countries noticing this occurance -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a principal formed in the U.S to support any countries threatened by the Soviet Union or communist insurrection, both of those occuring when the Soviet Union began to gain more land which was led with communism, the U.S believing in containment -
Berlin Bockade
Berlin surrendered to the Soviet Union, the Soviets then divided Berlin into two sections, east and west, and cut the west off from all trade and contact with the Allies, nothing able to get out and nothing able to get in, this showing the Allies that the Soviet Union was a threat -
The Formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed by ten European countires, Canada and the U.S, making an allience, stating that if one country was attack, it was a attack directed at all the allienced countries -
The Warsaw Pact
A pact was made between communist countries counting on military aid or cooperation if needed, this along with the formation of NATO left the world divided -
Cuba's Involvment in the Cold War
Cuba's government showed a loyal bond between the Soviet Union and Cuba, becmoing involved in the Cold War, the Soviet Union beginning to store nuclear weapons in Cuba, prepared to strike if needed -
The Cuban Missle Crisis
A nuclear face off between the Soviet Union and the U.S, both countries having nuclear weapons at bay, ready to attack, the stand off ending by a peaceful agreement made between the two -
The End of The Cold War
The Cold War came to a end when the new president of the Soviet Union introduced policies of glasnost, a more open and consultative government, to the Soviet Union, the fear of spreading commuinsm coming to a end, peace between the U.S and the Soviet Union formed