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Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union. In 1948-49, to force the Western Allied powers to abandon thier post-Wold War II Jurisdictions in Western Berlin.
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The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel,the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Westeren Republic of Korea to the south.
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The Vietnam War was a long, cotsly armed coflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southeren allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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The Soveit Union inaugurates the ''Space Age'' with its luanch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.
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The officals at the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency {CIA) attempted to push Castro from power. Finally, in Apirl 1961, the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over.
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense,13-days political and military standoff in the October 1962 over the installation of neclear-armed Soviet missiles.
