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Red is Soviet
Blue is US
Green is world
Yellow is multiple countries or other countries

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Mikhail Gorbachev taking power as the Soviet leader 1990 

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Mikhail Gorbachev taking power as the Soviet leader 1990 

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He was the last Soviet leader and brought in the policies of perestroika (economic restructuring) and glasnost (openness). He allowed the people to speak out and started giving them freedoms. He was one of the people who dismantled the Soviet frame of government and put the final nail in the Soviet's coffin.

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The walls purpose was to keep the east Berliner inside east Berlin. This was used by the americans to show that the Soviets had to put a wall up to keep their civilians from leaving to the west.

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Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty S.A.L.T. agreements

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Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty S.A.L.T. agreements

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It was the beginning of trying to mend the relationship of the Soviet Union and the US. It was also trying to deescalate the arms race.

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It was if one country falls to communism then every one of their neighbors will fall. this is one of the main reasons to why the US went to war in Vietnam

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The Vietnam War was a war between the communist north and capitalist south. This is one area when there was a major conflict between the capitalists and communists, though not with the Soviets and America but with America and China. It is also important because it was one of the most influential wars in American history

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The Soviets stationed nuclear missiles on Cuban soil. This is important because the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest in human history we have ever gotten to complete and utter annihilation.

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This is important because America now had a communist in essentially their backyard that was most likely going to ally with the USSR.

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Space Race's beginning with the Launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957

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Space Race's beginning with the Launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957

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This it was a competition to show who had the better scientific intellect and technology.

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The Warsaw Pact was an alliance of the USSR and it's buffer states. This would show the world that the Soviet Union doesn't stand alone and if war broke out it would be bloody and grueling.

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This was the first major conflict between major powers after WWII. It was largely unsettled and still can be argued that it isn't unsettled to this day.

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It was an official alliance of the US that was directly against the Soviet Union. I further the divide between the US and USSR

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It was one of the major policies of the US during the Cold War. It was adapted in the Truman Doctrine.

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soviet leader Joseph Stalin took over the power of the soviet union from lenin in 1929, and very much hated america, capitalism, and FDR, just like lenin did. Stalin was a very crude man with a diabolical way of running the soviet union.

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World War 2 was one of the worlds biggest wars, containing the holocaust where 6,000,000 members of the Jewish community perished. the overall soviet casualties were 20 million soviet soldiers and citizens. the soviet union has suffered more casualties than any other nation, and no nation helped them get back up on their feet after the war. stalin was in power and hated capitalism. he also had a very big hatred for the United States, which sparked the war on capitalism vs communism.

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the idea of McCarthyism was instituted when senator Joseph McCarthy conducted a speech stating that he was going to try his best to prevent communism in america and american culture. the term "

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Increase of military spending on both sides following the Truman Doctrine. This is important because it lead to humanity being able to end all life that we know of in an hour. And we've felt this very recently with the threats of North Korea, so it doesn't go away. This is also one of the major staples of the Cold War

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The US issued to money to build up the industries of war torn Europe. This was used to show how strong the US was compared to its Soviet counterpart. It also to build up democratic capitalist country allies.

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The Truman Doctrine was the Doctrine that was made to prevent the spread of communism and eventually attempt to collapse it.

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The air showed how the cold war would be played and how neither of the major superpowers wanted to get into direct war and initiate WWIII.

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He would create communist states that would serve as a buffer so the west couldn't invade the Soviet Union. It also was the start of the Iron Curtain. This is important because it was used as propaganda by the US to show that the Soviets were controlling totalitarians.

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Yalta Conference ends February 11th 1945

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Yalta Conference ends February 11th 1945

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The Allies decided to divide germany between themselves. It would create a divide between the ideology of America and Soviet Union

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the last soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned from office on December 25, 1991. this would mark the end of the soviet union and the beginning of the Russian federation. Thus ending the Cold War.

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He hated capitalism and made the Soviet Union hate capitalism and the west. He was the first leader of the Soviet Union.