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National movements begin destroying the Soviet Union and result in the removal of the communist system. The Soviet Union is torn into many different regions with the largest being the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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East and West Germany are united under a liberal democratic regime.

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Mikhail Gorbachev takes power and starts building better relations with the US. He also relaxes the Soviet Union’s grip on the rest of Eastern Europe.

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The Soviet Union starts cracking down on dissent at home and in other Eastern European countries in response to American aggression. They also start building up their military.

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The Soviet Union and the US sign the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty which further limited the new nuclear technologies. The Soviet Union and Cuba support communism in Nicaragua along with Brezhnev’s invasion of Afghanistan.

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The Cold War ended.

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North Vietnam overruns South Vietnam.

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The Soviet Union began to ease up on the European nations it controlled. With this, a better relationship with the United States formed.

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Reagan was elected president, and spent large sums of money on defence, and was very vocal about the US’s stance against communism.

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The United States pulled out of the Vietnam War, and soon after, the country fell to communism.

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Nixon met with the Soviets and developed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty which set a limit on how many nukes one nation could have. The treaty, however, really didn't do a whole lot, as the arms race soon picked up again.

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China and the Soviet Union break their alliance. Also the Soviet Union and the US sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty which limited the number of nuclear warheads and weapons systems each country could maintain.

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Khrushchev pressures East Germany into making the Berlin Wall.

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The US put Neil Armstrong on the moon, which was a huge leap forward in the space race.

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The Vietnam War was becoming more and more unpopular in the United States, with many pleading to pull out of the war.

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The United States discovered that communist Cuba had Soviet missiles, and that they could be fired at the United States cities. These missiles were eventually removed from Cuba.

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The Vietnam War began, with the United States supporting South Vietnam.

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Senator Joe McCarthy claimed to know of communists in the government, and there was a mass hysteria where no one knew if their own neighbors were communist. However, no real communists were ever found.

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June 25-The Korean War began, and the United States backed the South Koreans. There were American 33,000 deaths.

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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was formed, and consisted of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The organization was made for world protection, so if a country in NATO was attacked by a certain nation, all other countries would attack said nation.

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In response to Stalin's blockade of the western half of Berlin, Truman sent supplies to be airlifted into the city. The United States and Soviets also fought over Turkey and Iran. Both times, the Soviets backed down.

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A communist government is established in Cuba.

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The Soviet Union launched the satellite, Sputnik.

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March 12-The Truman Doctrine was made, which called the American people to send support to the countries who were in fear of falling to communism, and launched the plan of containment.

June 5-The Marshall Plan is put into effect, which called for $13 Billion in aid to European countries .

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The Warsaw pact is formed between the Soviet Union and many other countries in Eastern Europe in response to the creation of NATO.

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April 12-Harry Truman is sworn into office, and he vowed to take a strong stance against communism.

August 6 and 9-The United States launched the first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

September 2-World War II ended, with the United States and the Allies victorious.

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December 7-the United States joined the Allies to fight the Nazis when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

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The French lose the Indochina war and Vietnam is split into North and South Vietnam with north being communist and South being US-supported. North Vietnam begins supporting an armed Communist insurgency in the South which lasted for around 20 years.

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The all foreign powers, including the forces of the United States, were pulled from the Soviet Union.

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The United States and other European nations sent a small force to help Russian monarchists, but it ultimately failed, the Soviet Union became assuredly communist.

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Having noticed the Soviet Union’s new form for government, the United States opposed it, as it went against the main political ideologies of the United States.

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Stalin dies, and Nikita Khrushchev takes power.

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The Soviet Union and China join an alliance and communist North Korea invades South Korea.

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The Soviet Union lifts their blockade on West Germany and successfully test their first nuclear weapon.

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The Soviet Union sets up a blockade which prevented other countries from getting important goods like food to people in West Germany. They also tried to expand the Soviet influence to Turkey and Iran but gave up due to the support they were receiving from the US.

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The Allied powers finally win the war and the Soviet Union starts installing pro-communist regimes that depend on them in Eastern European countries.

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Germany breaks their agreement with the Soviet Union and attacks them. The Soviet Union joins the Allied powers in response.

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The Soviet Union makes an agreement with Germany to take Poland.

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The Bolsheviks overthrow the Czars and Vladimir Lenin takes power.

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The Soviet Union stops supporting communist countries in Eastern Europe leaving many countries vulnerable and generally resulting in them creating democratic governments.