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There is no exact date for the "start of the Cold War". However, it did originate in 1945. There was a tension and cultural difference between two superpower countries- United States and Soviet Union as well as NATO allies. It was a long lasting war, full of attempts to restore peace, and attempts to overcome the other side of the war. Though threats of Nuclear War were real concerns, no Atomic Bombs were released onto the other country. Tension remained, until the end of the Soviet Union.
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From 4 February to 11 Frebuary 1945, The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union meet at Yalta in order to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization.
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In January 1947, the Marshall Plan was put in place. This was a plan for the U.S. to aid Europe by providing $12 billion in order to rebuild Europe fixing the destruction created by the astronomically devastating World War Two. It was also put in place in hopes to lessen countries regulations and barriers against the U.S as well as modernize several European countries.
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In 1947, President Harry Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance to support the idea in which the United States should support countries who may be affected by the Soviet's Communism.
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Though the original Communist party was founded in 1921, during 1949, China fell to Communism. There was a revolution, changing the dynamics of the country. The Chinese Communist party was supported by the people, and rapidly forced the United States to suspend relation ties with the PRC for decades. Communism, the contrasting opposite of Capitalism, was an additional country that obtained ideologies that the U.S. opposed, and ultimately wanted to convert.
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In 1950, the Korean War began when soldiers from the North Korean crossed the 38th parallel.
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In 1951, President Truman fired MacArthur due to a mutual disagreement concerning U.S. activity in North Korea. MacArthur believed the U.S. should stay in North Korea to beat communists, Truman followed along. MacArthur assured Truman Chinese Communists would not invade. He was wrong. When Chinese invaders entered the country, he asked to bomb the communist people. This then sparked an argument between the two men, and soon, MacArthur was replaced with Gen. Matthew Ridgeway.
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In 1952, the U.S. presidential election of 1952 was won by Republican Dwight Eisenhower.
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In 1953, Joseph Stalin, age 73, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and died.
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In 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. Though this was no final peaceful settlement between the U.S. and Korea, it did end the war for the time in order to establish the Korean Demiliterized Zone, placing a border between the two countries, creating at least a makeshift peace. This seperation was also known as the 38th Parrallel, in which those in North Korea were communists, while those in the South democratically followed the U.S.'s lead.
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The Geneva Confrence was a meeting between the super powers in order to attempt to find solutions to conflicts in the Korean Peninsula. Also, there was a posibility to restore peace in Indochina. The Conference lasted all the way untill July 20, 1954 before the meeting finally ended.
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In 1956, the Presidential Election was a re-match of 1952, as Eisenhower's opponent in 1956 was Adlai Stevenson. Eisenhower won.
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In 1958, Explorer I, which was the first stage Redstone rocket that launched and first U.S. satellite and first satellite to have science instruments, was launched. Though this was the start of NASA, NASA was not officially founded untill July of 1958. However, the Explorer I sucess was astronomically impressive for our country, leaded to further explorations in space.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower founded NASA.
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In 1959, the Cuban Revolution budded. It was an armed revolt, under the charge of Fidel Castro. The Revolution contrasted from the Cuban goverment. They opposed Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, and aspired to change their countries ways. The civil war lasted three years. On December 31, the revolt won during the Battle Castro entered La Habana on January 2, 1959, decalring victory.
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IN 1960, Kennedy defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a very close race in the Presidential Election. Age 43, Kennedy was the youngest president and the first Catholic one as well.
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In 1961, Soviet Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, is the first human to travel into space. He is the first man to orbit the planet, completed in his space capsule within 89 minutes.
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In 1961, The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba by the group Brigade.
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In 1961, the Berlin Wall was built. After disallowing free passage from West and East Berlin, and placing barbed wire in order to stop radicals, Geman soilders began the creation of this border within their country. This was like a jail, put in place in order to prevent citizens from leaing the Communist east side of Germany to the Capitalist west side of Germany.
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In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen day uproar and conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was a political and military standoff between the two countries, representing the two drastically different idealologies between the two superpower countries. The Soviet Union had te chance to place nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba. This is 90 miles away from American shores, and could reach many main US cities. This perid lasted October 28.
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In 1963, Dallas Texas, president Kennedy is killed as he happily rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
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In 1989, after 30 years, the Berlin Wall was finally breeched.
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In 1991, the Cold War finally came to an End due to the Soviet Union's poor Economy.
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