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was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. the Sovite Union Blocked Berlin
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A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic
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was a cold conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence
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each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957)
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Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961,
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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962
