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iron curtain
Winston Churchill was concerned about the soviets taking over Easter Europe and creating totalitarian governments and he wanted the united states to be involved. The iron curtain was a division between western European capitalist countries and Easter European communist countries. -
Truman Doctrine
S. Truman presented the Truman Doctrine,and asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
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Berlin blockade
The soviet union blocked the western allies railways, roads, and canals leading to the sectors of berlin of which the western allies had stationed -
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Korean War
War between North Korea and South Korea. The soviets were with north Korea and the united states was with south Korea, and that caused the separation of Korea as we still see to this day -
Cuban missile crisis
A confrontation between the soviet union and the united states, and it was the closest that the united state came closest to nuclear conflict -
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Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong started the cultural revolution to reassert his authority in the Chinese government -
Revolt of Czechoslovakia
The soviet union invaded Czechoslovakia, the soviets led the Warsaw pact in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.