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The Korean war starts, the outcome of the war could impact the Soviet Union and the United States -
The United States would drop nuclear bombs on two japanese cities, causing Japan to surrender. -
An American foreign policy with the goal of containing Soviet expansion -
The Soviet Union detonate their first atomic bomb -
A team of American scientists sucessfully create the first hydrogen bomb -
The Vietnam war begins -
The competion to get a man in space between Russia and the U.S. begins -
The United States finds out about soviet missles being held in Cuba
putting fear levels at an all time high -
The President of the United States is Assassinated in Dallas, Texas. -
Russia invades Afghanistan