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  Cited as start of Cold War
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  Internantional organization to settle world problems and avoid armed conflicts
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  Truman demanded free election in Eastern Europe
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  "An iron curtain has descended across the continent"
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  USA would provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism
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  U.S. economic recovery for war-torn Europe
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  Germany is divided into 4 zones, East Germany and West Germany
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  Blockade to sectors of Berlin
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  Carry supplies into Western Berlin
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  Military alliance provided mutual help if attacked USA, Britain, France, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Gelgium, Norway. (NATO)
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  Race to develope nuclear weapons
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  East Germany. Democratic State
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  War between North and South Korea
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  East Germany. Communist controlled
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  Joseph Stalin is dead
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  Nakits is elected into office
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  Race to get into space
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  First satalite in space.
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  Second Indo-China War
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  Soviets invade and push out most Afghans to Iran and Pakistan
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  U-2 spyplave was shot down over Soviet Union
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  First man in space
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  Failed invasion of Cuba
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  Wall Put up to split East and West Germany
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  Soviet Union putting missiles in Cuba
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  Period of international tension between USA and USSR
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  Treat betweent USA and Soviet Union for elimination of missiles
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  Mikhail is elected into office
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  Germnay reunited as one
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  USSR is no more