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During the Cold War, the intensity between the U.S and the Soviet Union rose. This caused them to try to show off how much power they had, they had the arms race where both countries built as many nuclear weapons they can make, the containment where the U.S tried to stop the spread of Communism around the world, and the space race, which was whoever can get to space as fast as possible.

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The most important people around this era was Franklin Roosevelt, who was the President of the United States when leading them in the Cold War and who fired the Atomic Bomb which led to the arms race in the Cold War.

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Europe, Southeast and East Asia, Africa, and North and South America

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Containment: U.S stopping the spread of communism in the World.

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The Places of where the Cold War and Colonies that declared independence.

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Another event was decolonization, it was when countries were starting to declare independence from colonizing countries like Britain and Spain, Africa started to declare independence from Europe as well as India and Pakistan. This caused for the great powers, the U.S and Soviet Union, wanting to "help" them but so they become part of their government system.

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Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, he caused many deaths in order to lead his country to great prosperity in economy.

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Iron Curtain: The division between Communist and Anti-Communist Countries

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Mao Zedong, who was the cause of China to become Communist, after becoming a communist country, Mao did anything to make China a great country, whether is was torture, propaganda, and killing millions of his own people that were against his ideals.

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Proxy War: A war that was fought in other countries that were in control of the main country without the main countries fighting themselves, an example of this is the Vietnam and Korea War.

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Cold War: A conflict without the countries, like the U.S and Soviet Union, having no warfare but rather like proxy wars or the arms and space race.

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Glasnot: The policy of promoting freedom of speech and political openness, started by former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, which had been restricted for many years in the country.

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The Berlin Wall had fell

Communist Regimes started to fall

East Europe was no longer becoming Communist.

Countries under The Soviet Union rule declared independence.

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Europe still continued to become a capitalist

The use of nuclear weapons for threat use

The development of new technologies

The declining economy of Eastern European Countries

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Europe was using too much resources, therefore causing pollution.

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Many people were afraid of the communist regime, and were scared of spies in Europe. There was also divison of cultures between The U.S and The Soviet Union.

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Europe was split in half with their politics, East Europe was Communist, and West Europe was Capitalist.

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The economic effects on Europe were that in East Berlin, under Communist control, were struggling with no food to thrive of, and inflation had risen in Europe.

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In Europe, there were ideas of being shared of exchanging trade, as well as social beliefs.

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The technology they had in Europe was the nuclear missiles from both sides, The U.S and The Soviet Union, as well as Radio Identification which was to track data from the Soviets.