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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.
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The Korean War started when North Korea invaded South Korea. It was also the first hot war in the cold war. North Korea was support by the USSR and South Korea was supported by the USA.
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The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Oct. 4th the Soviet Union launched successfully launched Sputnik I. Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite. Was the size of a Beach ball.
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a failed military invasion of cuba under taken by the cia sponser paramilitary a group brigade 2596 on April 17th, 1961.
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on August 13th, 1961 the communist government of the German democratic republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete between east and west berlin.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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Strategic Arms limitation talks between the USSR and the U.S.. They met on November of 1969 to make a treaty to end the arms race.
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lasted over 9 years. From December 25th 1999-Feb 15th 1989. Soviet army fought against insurgent groups.
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the Cold War began to spread across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
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The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.