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• When the U.S., Great Britain, and France decided to join their sections of Germany together it created problems for the USSR. Since three countries controlled one half of Germany and only one, the USSR, controlled the other half the Soviet Union felt threatened. This caused a war between east and west germany, west being democracy and east being communist. • The fight between democracy and communism was the overlying cause of the Cold War. • The communist wanted world control and the democrats wanted to stop communism from spreading throughout the world. __Major Players__ • Multiple eastern countries such as, U.S.A, France, and Great Britain, worked together to fight the Soviets, Chinese, and their communist allies. ****Eastern allies** __**Major Events**__ •Berlin Blockade blocked Berlin from western threats. •U-2 incident was caused by the Soviets, when they shot down an American spy plane. •Sputnik was the first artificial satelite sent into space. It was launched on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union. • Bay of pigs invasion it was an attack on cuba to stop the uprising of Fidel Castro. •Cuban Missle Crisis was the closest the world has ever came to nuclear war. Soviet's put missiles on the island of cuba and had them pointed toward the eastern coast of the United states. •Berlin Wall- Building of + fall of the Berlin Wall was built to separate the Democrats (east) from the Communists (west). The Berlin wall was torn down because communist Germany was diminished. __**End of War**__ • The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union's economy. The Soviet Union collapsed after the economy crashed, this ended the war because the Soviets couldn't comprehend with this situation.
 * __Causes__
 * U.S.A
 * France
 * Britain
 * Canada
 * Japan
 * Western allies**
 * Soviet Union
 * China
 * Eastern Europe

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__**Sources http://www.berlin-life.com/berlin/wall http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/index.html http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1765.html http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/ http://americanhistory.about.com/od/coldwar/a/gary_powers.htm http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/coldwar/p/prberlinblock.htm **__