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stalin declared that comminisum and capitolism were incompatable
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Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War
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technical assistance provided through the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA)
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the communists moved into Czechoslovakia and spred their influance
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NATO was approved by congress
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Split korea into two natiuons one north and one south... this war still rages today
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A mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War
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prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government
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unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba
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Physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. However, it was also the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.
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closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded.
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East German people, through their courage and non-violent resistance, unexpectedly brought down the Berlin Wall
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disintegrated into fifteen separate countries
