The Cold War

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Germany and the rest of Europe was a chessboard that the two powers played on. The U.S. was allied with West Germany, and the Soviet Union was allied with East Germany. When the Berlin Wall was built here, the Soviet Union took a major hit in their political opinions across the globe. Eventually in 1990, theBerlinWall was destroyed and the two sides of Germany were reunited. Cuba was a minor player in . When Fidel Castro took over, the U.S. authorized an invasion of this country. This invasion, known as the Bay of Pigs, was a hideous failure. When the U.S. failed on this invasion, the Soviet Union sent missiles to Cuba. The U.S threatened a “quarantine” and the Soviet Union withdrew the missles.
involved many important people but the main people involved were Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev. Joseph Stalin led his country through World War II, and was mostly responsible for splitting up Germany into its ...

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