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Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviets

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Soviets invade Poland to help an ally country of Ukraine who had been trapped in illegally owned territory of Poland.

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The Soviet Union joined forces with Britain, France, Poland

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After Germany invades the Soviet Union, the U.S. extends aid to the Soviet Union.

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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This brought the US into World War II

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American and Soviet forces link up at Torgau on the Elbe River. Germany has been cut in half.

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Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin, Admiral Donitz to succeed him

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V-E Day is proclaimed as Victory in Europe is celebrated.

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US, UK, USSR, meet to demand unconditional surrender by Japanese.

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Both Atomic Bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US

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WWII ends

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Cold War starts between the Soviets and United States

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The US and Soviets sends troops for Korean War. Americans fighting for South Korea, and Soviets for North.

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U.S. makes a Hydrogen Bomb

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Joseph Stalin dies from a stroke. Nikita Khrushchev succeed in power

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Soviets make a Hydrogen Bomb

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Suez crisis

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Sputnik and the Space Race, Russia was the first country who launched a rocket into space. Which made the US get more into technology to do better then Russia. (first human made object sent to space)

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Berlin crisis

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13 day standoff full of nerves and tough decisions between US, Cuba, and the Soviets. Mostly took place in Havana. (Capital of Cuba)

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JFK Assassinated. LBJ takes over until 1969. Right in the middle of the Cold War.

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US and Soviet troops set off to Vietnam for the Vietnam War. Each fighting for different sides

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The US land on the moon (first people to land on the moon)

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Nuclear Weapons Banned on Seabed.

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Moscow Summit

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Watergate Scandal, which leads President Richard Nixon to resign

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Soviets invade Afghanistan. Because the Soviets wanted to try and expand their communist government.

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US pulls of a massive upset in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics against The Soviets 4-3

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Americans boycott 1980 Olympics, which was held in Moscow, Russia.

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Soviets boycott 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics

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Improvements to US-Soviet hotline to avoid potential major disputes

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Gorbachev elected president of the Soviets. He'd be the last Soviet leader, before the Soviet Union fell in 1991

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Berlin wall falls, which undivided Germany

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Russia tried to get rid of the Americans by offering a $2 billion aid package (payoff) to Kyrgyz because the US were to close to Russia's "sphere of influence"