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competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.
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informally extended to become the basis of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world. It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from anti-fascism ally to a policy of containment of Soviet expansion as advocated by diplomat George Kennan.
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an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion
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the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city.
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( war between North Korea and South Korea)North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states
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two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability.
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known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin
