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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War 2 between powers in the Western and Eastern Bloc.
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Euopean economies after the end of World War 2.
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Russians -who wanted Berlin all for themselves- closed all hghways, railroads, and canals from western occupied Germany into western occupied Berlin.
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The prospect of Communism expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact.
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The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era proxy war that occured in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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The CIA launched a full-scale invasion on Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans that fled their homes when Castro took over. But they were greatly outnumbered and surrendered after only less than 24 hours of fighting.
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The Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete " Antifascistischer Schutzwall," or "antifascist bulwark," between East and West Berlin, in order to keep fascists out of Germany.
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Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in November 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.s. shores.
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Three decades after the creation of the Berlin Wall people were finally able to break down the wall. These people had seeral uprisings that slowly wore down the wall.
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Representatives from 11 Soviet republics metmin the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.