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Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin ousted Tsar Nicholas II and established a new government based on communist principles

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foreign troops left Russia. The new Russia government wiped out the opposition and regained complete control

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Lenin dies. Josef Stalin takes over as the new General Secretary of the Communist Party (leader)

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Nazi Soviet Non-agression pact signed. Germany and USSR would not attack each other and in 1939, Nazi and Soviet forces invaded Poland and divied the nations between them. Nazis go to war with Britain and France following the end of the invasion

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Hitler breaks nonaggression pact with Stalin and invades the USSR.

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Franklin Roosevelt dies. Vice President Harry Truman becomes the new president of the United States and is a more determined opponent of communism

Germany surrenders to the allied powers. The country is divided into 4 sectors, controlled by the Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom, and France

The United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The combined attacks force Japan to surrender, thus ending WWll

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March 1947 Truman promised financial support to monarchists fighting communists.  This was called the Truman Doctrine and was meant to rally the American People to get the materials necessary to support the freedom against “communist aggression”.

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the United States and Russia clash over control of strait in Turkey. Stalin set a blockade on the western half of Berlin and the United States launches the Berlin airlift to provide aid to the Germans living in the city

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Stalin lifted the blockade in Germany but Germany remains 2 separate countries. Communist East Germany and NATO influenced West Germany

he United States formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO). Western nations Military Alliance to counter any Soviet threat to the security of Europe

successfully tested its first nuclear device ending the American monopoly on nuclear weapon

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Korea has separated into 2 different nations when communist North Korea invaded South Korea

The two Koreas coexisted uncomfortably until June 25th, 1950 when communist North Korea invaded South Korea.

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Stalin dies and Nikita Kurschev takes over as the new leader of the USSR

Dwight D. Eisenhower ends the Korean War

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The French were defeated in the Indochina War. The region was broke up into tiny independent nations

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Soviets launch the Sputnik satellite (first ever satellite) which made the US afraid due to them now losing the Space Race.

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Cuban Revolution is successful and Fidel Castro takes control of the island nation

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The CIA (American intelligence) trained Cuban exiles to land in Cuba and fight in the Bay of Pigs invasion. The invasion failed and Castro remained in power

Berlin Wall was built by East Germany on order from the Soviet Union. The purpose of the wall was to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the western part of the city that was controlled by NATO.

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Soviets plant missiles on Cuban soil, almost led to a war, but they stopped if the US agreed not to invade Cuba again

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America started to have a large protest on US soil about the president's choices to send a large number of troops to Vietnam.

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Large protests in the home from 1967 that reached its peak in 1968.

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The United States successfully put the first man on the moon and jump ahead of the USSR in the space race.

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Nixon visited China in a bid to normalize relations with that nation's communist government. A few months after the trip Nixon visited the Soviet Union and its leader Lenid Brezhnev where the two men signed a treaty that had grown out of the Strategic arms Limitations Talks (SALT).

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Richard Nixon ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, nearly 60,000 American soldiers had died.

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Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR. He promises change.

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East and West Germany reunited under liberal regime after the Berlin Wall fell.

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Soviet Union officially dissolved with Gorbachev’s resignation and the USSR dissolves into several independent states.

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Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin ousted Tsar Nicholas II and established a new government based on communist principles