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Stalin took over the USSR (Russia) after the death of their great leader Lenin. He helped his people fight against the Nazis in WW2 and was the one who later created the Warsaw Pact with countries like Bulgaria, Albania, and many more.
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The Yalta Conference was the conference held after WW2 by the US, USSR, and the UK.
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The 33rd President of the United States who helped his country fight in WW2 and in the early years of the Cold War. Also wrote the Truman Doctrine
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The allies had Germany surrender to them and had the Germans leave the USSR, thus ending the War
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During the Cold War Germany was split into a Western (ran by the United States) and an Eastern part (ran by the USSR).
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President Harry Truman announced his new Truman Doctrine.
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Due to the USSR blocking Americans way into West Berlin. America started to bring things to West Berlin through planes such as candy for kids and peanut butter
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NATO - North Atlantic Organization was formed by the United States, Canada, and many other Atlantic bordered countries to defend themselves against the USSR
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China had a huge civil war which ultimately turned the whole country communist
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America helped South Korea during the Korean Civil War trying to prevent communism from spreading
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A Pact made by Russia and their allied countries during the Cold War to be able to fight against NATO just in case
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This is the picture of the two pacts NATO (blue) and Warsaw (red) during the cold war
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The US and USSR had a race to see who would reach the moon first resulting in having Sputnik 1 (a Soviet Satelite) get there first
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There was a huge race to see what major power would go to the moon first and this is an imagae showing Sputnik 1 (a USSR rocket) was the one to go into the air first
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was led by Fidel Castro who helped overthrow Cuban dictator at the time Fulgencio Batista
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The USSR built a wall in Berlin to divide East and West Berlin to keep the Americans out
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This is an image of the wall which was built to separate Eastern and Western Germany during the cold war
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The USSR had missiles in Cuba causing a big commotion in America for about 13 days
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Here is a picture of Americans Protesting John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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China launched it's first atomic bomb just moments after their civil war
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United States troop go to Vietnam to help fight off Communism
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S. Vietnam became a communist country which ended the Vietnamese war
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This image is showing what it would look like if Communism was to spread to America and how horrible it would be
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This graph is showing the number of warheads between the US and USSR during the cold war
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This chart shows the number of Russian population during the Cold War
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This image shows the United floating on the Atlantic looking across at the HUGE and RED iceberg the USSR and in this image it showing that we are pretty close to them and we should be careful
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These are 2 separate links to 2 separate videos related to the Cold War. P.S. you never said we couldn't use one of your videos... http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU8LU4wpS0c
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A former actor from California and our 40th president was i in charge of the Cuban Missile Crisis and was in power during the last years of the Cold War.
