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-Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin.

-The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin

-the blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift.

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-Treaty Organization was created by the United States, Canada

- it was to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

-the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.

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- Korean War began some 75,000 soldiers

- This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War.

- American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf.

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- cold war was a fight between the United States and the USSR over the world's resources.

- South Vietnam was an allie of the US and North Vietnam was an allie of the USSR.

-US feared if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would also fall to Communism.

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-It was a key Cold War event.

-the first artificial Earth satellite.

-first two Project Vanguard launch attempts rattled the American public

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-United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union

-the United States government first denied the plane's purpose and mission

-the government produced its intact remains and surviving pilot.

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-West Berlin was a geographical loophole.

-thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West.

-Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin.

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-the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.

-commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded.

-thanks to the bravery of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted.

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Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 1970

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Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 1970

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-international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

-to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

-the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.

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Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 1970

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Perestroika anf Glasnost by Gorbachev 1985

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Perestroika anf Glasnost by Gorbachev 1985

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-introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations.

-Gorbachev’s revolutionary program swept communist governments throughout Eastern Europe.

-brought an end to the Cold War

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-took about three decades until the Wall was torn down.

-Several times people in the Communist countries raised up against the Communist.

-they failed, until they finally succeeded