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During the war america had been on the alert for enemy spies and sabotage secret destruction of propert or interference with working factories. Joseph McCathy announced he had a list of 57 state names who were spies.
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Mao Zedong fought to over throw Emperor Chiang. In october 1949 Mao set up the peoples republic of China. By december the communist had driven all of Chiangs forces from the chinese mainland.
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President Truman asked congress for $400 million dollars in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey
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George Marshall proposed a large scale plan to help europe rebuild it's economy.
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By joinging NATO the United States made it clear that it would help to defend the nations of western Europe against any Soviet aggression
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Many East Berlines fled to West Berlin because of Communism. That embrassed Germany and the Soviet Union so over the next 12 years they started built the Berlin wall.
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The Soviet Union Formed a military alliances called the Warsaw pact. The Soviet union demanded complete loyalty from its Warsaw pact neighbors.
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In 1957 a Soviet rocket was launched Sputnik the worlds first artificial satellite.
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America built Nasa to compete against the Soviet union
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American leaders worried that Cuba and the soviet Union were planning on invading the U.S
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Gary Powers an american spy was sent to prison for 10 years because he was caught taking pictures of the Soviet Union. But he didn't surve all that time because Russia and america had a spy trade.
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North vietnam went into communism then attacked south vietnam
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Had shaken both America and the Soviet union officials. In al the years of the cold war the world never came as close to a full scale nuclear war.
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was the defence meconizm to shoot down Soveit missels from space.
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a policy of speaking out and honestly.
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North Korea went into Communism . Later turned on South Korea trunin into the Korean war.
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In responce Stalin closed all the roads,railways and river routes connecting Berlin to West Germany. In the end Truman decided to set up a huge airlift. Day after day planes flew in food,fuel and aother supplies to 2 million Berliners.
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a treaty that agrred to limite the number of nuclear wear heads amd missles
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All of the countries joined together to take out Russia after its attack on poland