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Leaders from the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union discussed the division of Germany, and establishing a postwar order. It took place in Potsdam Germany.

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A United States foriegn policy made by President Harry Truman. It was intended to stop the spread of communism by providing countries that claimed to be threatened by communist expansion money and resources.

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An American initiative to provide foreign aid to European countries recovering from WW2. It costed about $13 billion, and the program was most likely born from a fear of communism feeding off economic distress.

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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. It was an organization established by the Soviet Union to assist the economic development of Eastern European countries belonging to the Soviet Bloc. The original members were the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. It was created in response to the European Economic Community.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's purpose was to secure peace, promote cooperation, and guard the freedom of it's members. It was created in response to the threat of the Soviet Union.

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The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance. A collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and othe Soviet satellite states. It represented the Eastern bloc, while it's ideological opposition, NATO, represented the Western bloc. The purpose was to reinforce communist dominance in Eastern Europe.

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After Germany was partitioned the Soviet Union wanted more territory. They tried to gain more by closing off all highways, canals, and railroads from western-occupied Germany to western-occupied Berlin, making it impossible to get food or other supllies to the city. The Soviet Union believed this would drive out the US, Britain, and France, but they supplied the city from the air.

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After WW2 Korea was divided into 2 occupation zones, the Soviets administering the North and the Americans administering the South. as a result of Cold war tensions they both became sovereign states. One following the ideology of the Soviet Union and the other following capitalistic principles. Both states claimed to be the sole government of Korea and eventually North Korea invaded South Korea.

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The Berlin wall was built inbetween East and West Berlin to keep citizens of Soviet controlled East Berlin from escaping to West Berlin.

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After the Bay of Pigs invasion the SU put nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kennedy then ordered a naval blockade of Cuba until the SU removed their missiles.

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During the Cold War the US and Soviet Union were in a race to space. They competed to make progress before the other. On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the very first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. This intensified the arms race and cold war tensions between the US and Soviet Union. On April 12th, 1961, the Soviet Union launched the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin. The space race unofficially ended when a US astronaut, Neil Armstrong, took the first steps on the moon.

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The Vietnam War, much like the Korean War, was a conflict based on the spread of communism, and the US policy of containment. The communist government of North Vietnam was pitted against South Vietnam and their ally the US. It started as an independence movement and ended up getting tangled up in Cold War conflict.