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Explanation: The cold war lasted from 1947 – 1991 and the some of the events that happened are in this order
--- Mao Zedong takes over China and turns it communist on October 1st 1949
---Deng Xiaoping takes over China and allows for some Free Market reforms on December 18, 1978
---Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st female prime minister of Great Britain on 4th of May 1979.
---Mikhail Gorbachev starts policy of "Glasnost and Perestroika" (openness and restructuring) In 1985,
----Fall of the USSR on 26 December 1991