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United Nations formed
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Period: to
Early Cold War
-Containment: Different strategies to prevent the spread of communism out of the states.
-Arms Race/ Space Race: The race between the Soviet Union and the Us to see who can send the first satellite/ shuttle into space (the soviet won)
-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a federal socialist state between Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation.
-Communism: an economic system that tries to create a classless society -
Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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Korean war
1950-1953 -
Rosenburg trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Jonas Salk invents the polio vaccine
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USSR launches sputnik