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Hitler commits suicide and Nazi Germany defeated by the Allies and USSR.
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US launches giant stimulus check packages for countries in need after conflicts.
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Soviet response to Marshall Plan. Marshall Plan for East Europe.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization created for Western European countries along with US and Canada to safeguard and maintain peace and stability.
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War between the South and North of Korea, in which the South side was being backed by the US and the North by the USSR.
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Death of Stalin.....
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The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.
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War between the South and North of Vietnam, in which one of each side was being backed by the US and the other the USSR.
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From the launching of Sputnik to the Moon Landing.
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To separate East and West Germany, USSR builds the Berlin Wall to prevent capitalist influence and set an "Iron Curtain" between East and West Europe.
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USSR and Cuba holding weapons of mass destruction just off the coast of the US.
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Period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
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As USSR begins to fall, as does the Berlin Wall.
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Soviet Union is no more after policies of Gorbachev overpower rule of communism.
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Balkan nationalities break up from the country of Yugoslavia to many smaller countries.