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used to prevent world war by creating something peaceful to solve with
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Churchill called the line between US and its allies and Russia and its allies the iron curtain
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a competition for superior weapons mostly between US and soviet union for chemical weopons
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american foreign policy that countered geopolitical expansion during the cold war
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united states gives 13 billion to help rebuild western European economy's after WWII
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the soviets blocked west allies from roadways, waterways, and sectors of west Berlin during the cold war.
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Truman ordered a massive airlift of supplies to west Berlin and failed the Berlin blockade
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further communist expansion prompted US and 11 other nations to form the north Atlantic treaty organization
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War between south Korea and North Korea after North Korea invaded south Korea
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the general of the central committee of the soviet union dies
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war between south Congo and Vietnam to reunify america joined to help prevent spread of communism.
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tension between soviets and US as soviets launch rocket into space US readies a rocket to show science and technology power
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was the first artificial satellite to orbit earth. this was set off by the soviet union
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a spy plane sent to spy on Russia during the cold war was shot down by Russian SAM missiles
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during the cold war 1400 Cuban exiles were trained to invade cuba
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start of the construction of the Berlin wall in Germany this wall separated east Berlin from the communist west in the cold war.
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13 day confrontation between the soviet union and United states in Cuba that created a scare of nuclear war during the cold war
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lasted 9 years when the soviets invaded Afghanistan against the democratic party
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the destruction symbolized the end of the cold war
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oil and gas revenue dropped and the soviet union broke up and now European states gained political control
