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Article: Using a chronology: the Cold War.(SKILLS REPRODUCIBLE)(Chronology)
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- May 14, 2007
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As World War II ended, only two superpowers emerged, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was essentially a struggle for global power and influence between democracy and Communism, the political systems these two countries represented. Read this chronology of that conflict, then answer the questions that follow.
1945: World War II ends. The Soviet Red Army occupies much of Eastern Europe and the eastern part of Germany. In 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns that "an iron curtain has descended across the continent."
1949: Germany becomes two countries, Soviet-dominated East Germany and democratic West Germany. Berlin, the ...