1. The Cold War Finish Russia Notes Introduce the Cold War
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2. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics AKA The U.S.S.R
The Warsaw Pact- a treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.

3. The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
The Eastern Bloc claimed that the Wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.

4. Sputnik The First Human Launched Satellite in space
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957
The U.S. Freaks Out… This begins the “Space Race”

5. The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

6. The End
The unraveling of the SOVIET BLOC began in Poland in June when polish voters elected a noncommunist opposition government to their legislature.
By the fall of 1989, East and West Germans were tearing down the BERLIN WALL with pickaxes.