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The Cold War
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, was an alliance between Belgium, Luxemburg, France, the U.K., Netherlands, the U.S., Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. This was an alliance to rival the rising communist countries. -
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The Vietnam War
The longest United States War that began in an effort to prevant the Domino Theory and also prevent South Vietnam from falling to commuist rule. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. It seperated the communists in the Eastern part of Berlin from the non-communists in the western side and predominantly blocked the people from the communists area from leaving, mostly because they didnt want the communist people to see how they rest of the world were living. The Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The event was a 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores, these missiles were capable blowing up a huge portion of the US coast and was a huge threat to civilisation, could have caused nuclear war. -
Germany is Reunified
After the fall of the Berlin Wall Germany is finally reunified. -
End of the Warsaw Pact
The communist alliance is now ended. -
The End of the Cold War
President H. W. Bush delivers Christmas Day speech signaling the end of the Cold War.
