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British and Americans don’t trust the USSR.

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Germany and Russia make an agreement and agree to cooperate with each other.

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Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrow the regime of Czar Nicholas II, and create a new government based on communist principles. Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader of the Bolshevik Party and the new Soviet Union.

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The United States and several other European states send a small expeditionary force to help Russian monarchist, counterrevolutionary forces try to topple the Bolsheviks, and restore the czarist regime.

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WWI ends.

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Foreign troops leave Russia as the new Soviet government wipes out opposition and established control. This intervention establishes a climate of mistrust between the two nations that prevented them from establishing diplomatic relations for another 13 years.

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WWII begins.

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British and Americans still don’t trust the USSR.

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Germany invades Russia, renouncing their agreement and cooperation with from 1939 up until that point.

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Stalin ensures the installation of pro-Soviet communist regimes in the countries of Eastern Europe that were heavily dependent on the Soviet Union until 1947.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies, and his successor, Harry Truman, emerges as a more determined opponent of communism.

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WWII ends.

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Winston Churchill, the wartime leader of Great Britain, gives one of his most famous speeches at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

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Truman pledges financial support to monarchists fighting Soviet-backed communists in a speech.

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The Truman Doctrine is created as a way to rally the American people to commit the resources necessary to support freedom against what he called communist aggression.

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Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposes in a commencement address at Harvard University.

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Stalin sets up a blockade of the western half of Berlin. The Americans start the Berlin Airlift for a year.

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The two nations clash over Soviet control of the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey—which offered access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea—and over Soviet influence in Iran.

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Stalin lifts the blockade, but Germany remains definitively divided into two separate nations, while Berlin remains a divided city.

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NATO is created.

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The Soviet Union successfully tests its first nuclear device.

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Korea is divided into separate nations following the end of World War II.

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Start of the Korean War.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower ends the Korean War.

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Joseph Stalin dies.

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The Red Hysteria (aka McCarthyism) calms down, but the effects are instilled in U.S. citizens.

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The French are defeated in the Indochina War, and Vietnam is split into a communist North and a U.S.-supported South.

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New Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev forms the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance with Eastern Europe countering NATO, and causing America to become more wary of Soviet actions.

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Soviets launch the satellite, Sputnik, evoking the fear of straggling US scientific achievement and that America was losing the Space race.

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Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro establishes communist government 90 miles from the coast of Florida and promptly signs an alliance with the Soviet Union.

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East German government is pressured by Khrushchev into building the Berlin Wall; further separating the two divided cities and preventing East Germans from escaping to West. This along with the escalating arms race between the US and the USSR, only increases the tensions between the two superpowers.

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Americans discover that Soviets are installing nuclear missiles on Cuban soil, posing a direct threat to American cities. U.S. President John F. Kennedy demands that the Soviets remove the missiles, and the situation nearly develops into open war.

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President Lyndon B. Johnson sends increasingly large numbers of combat troops to Vietnam.

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Vietnam War quickly becomes unpopular among American people, provoking large protests on the home front.

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Protests against the Vietnam War reaches phenomenal proportions.

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President Richard Nixon ends US involvement in the Vietnam War by pulling troops, but by then nearly 60,000 American soldiers had died, along with millions of Vietnamese.

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North Vietnamese forces finally overran the South, ending a conflict that was deeply humiliating for the United States and that had bitterly divided the nation.

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Nixon visits China in a bid to normalize relations with that nation's communist government.

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The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty places limits on the number of nuclear warheads and weapons systems that each country could maintain, thus reining in somewhat the costly arms race that had characterized Soviet-American relations since the invention of the atomic bomb.

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Despite a second treaty signed by Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, the end of the decade brings renewed tensions.

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Brezhnev invades Afghanistan- the support given by Soviet Union and Cuba to Brezhnev and communists revolutionaries to prop up pro-Soviet regime there is found “disturbing” to the US.

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Ronald Reagan pledges to stand firm against what he termed "the evil empire" of the Soviet Union.

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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union, pledging thoroughgoing reforms of the entire communist system.

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Nearly all the nations of Eastern Europe have new, democratic, non-communist governments. East and West Germany are reunited under a liberal democratic regime.

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Nationalist movements in the various regions that made up the Soviet Union pull the empire apart and destroy the communist system completely.

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The Cold War ends. Communist governments remain, most notably in China, Cuba, and North Korea, but they no longer present the same threat to U.S. national interests, despite more or less open hostility between these nations and the American government.

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These regions became 15 independent nations, though many were still united in a loose constitutional arrangement known as the Russian Federation. Russia itself, the largest and most powerful of the constituent parts of the former Soviet Union, now had a democratic form of government.

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Along with Eisenhower's retraction of military spending, the Cold War seemingly stabilization. Since the end of WWII, there were many efforts to suppress communist political activity in the US, culminating in to a popular public campaign. Senator Joseph McCarthy led such campaign seeking to expose American “communist sympathizers”. Chaotic and fueled by public hysteria, the campaign led to many falsely accused and persecuted Americans. Lives and reputations were ruined, those of both the innocent and guilty, and sometimes resulted in incarceration.

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North Korea invaded South Korea. Truman reacts forcefully, leading an effort in the United Nations to commit troops to help the South Koreans fend off the communist invasion. Led by U.S. forces, the United Nations mounts an operation that soon developed into a protracted war.