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June 1948 the us and Britain announced a proposal for establishing a new current the Deutschmark.

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may 1st 1960, the soviet union shot down a US U-2 reconnaissance plane and called the flight an agreesive attack.

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on october 14th 1962, a U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba and discovered nuclear missile sites under construction.

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the french could no longer control vietnam so, Ho Chi Minh of north vietnam decided to form a communist country.

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the soviet war in afghanistan lasted nine years from december 1979 to february 1989. it was fought by soviet-led afghan forces against multi-national rebel groups called mujahideens.

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Korea was occupied by Japan until the end of ww2. after the end of ww2, Korea was divided by the U.S to the South and Russia/China to the North similar to what happened in Germany.

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the sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the sputnik programme.it was a key cold war event that begun on october 4th 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite

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when Mikhail S. Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he launched his nation on a dramatic new course.  His dual program of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) introduced huge changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations.

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In the late 1980s Russian leader Gorbachev decided to abandon Russia’s satellite states to try and save his crumbling nation, allowing democracy to filter through, as it did in Poland.  There were anti-government protests in East Germany and, after some initially stern words by East German leader Honecker which threatened violence, Russia refused to back him and he resigned