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The main purpose was to end war with Japan and spare some of the American lives. -
The Potsdam Conference is perhaps best known for President Truman's July 24, 1945 conversation with Stalin -
Helped provide protection and security. -
It provoked genuine fears of war in the West. And instead of preventing the establishment of an independent West Germany, it accelerated the Allies plans to set up the state. -
It was the first time that the two superpowers , the United States and the Soviet Union, had fought a 'proxy war ' in a third country.
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The launch of Sputnik fueled both the space race and the arms race, in addition to increasing Cold War tensions, as each country worked to prepare new methods of attacking the other. -
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin. -
Closest we have ever came to a nuclear war. -
2 soviet policies made by gorbachev that attempted to make them more like the west. His people resisted. -
Inspired protesters in the USSR, then lead them to the collapse of the soviet union.