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Canada and ten other countries had formed a new kind of military alliance called the NATO.
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The soviet union had developed nuclear weapons.
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West Berlin had become a showcase for the West Germany prosperity. Then a massive so called (exodus) of low-paid east germans had been unhappy with communism.
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In the west where the western democracies had been led by the U.S. They pledged to help one another if they were being attacked.
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They started to get ready for this treaty was both the Soviet Union and Canada, United States began to make their personal alliance.
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Krushchev sent tanks in to enforce obedience and his successor, Leonid Brezhnev did the same thing when the Czechs challenged the Soviets in the "Prague Spring"
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They sent nuclear warheads to be stored on Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of the united states.
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South vietnamese commanders raids on North Vietnam.
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Communists rebels and tries to overthrow South Vietnam's government.
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Czecholslovakia defiance of soviet control led to a soviet invasion, Hungary introduced economic reforms.
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Muslim conservatives charged that both politics threatened islamic tradition.