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The U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany.
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In 1950, the north and South sides of Korea started fighting. It becomae known as the Korean war. North Korea invaded South Korea in June and that's when the war started
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The Vietnam War was a long, costly war that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses
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A failed military invasion of Cuba
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The Communist East German authorities built a wall the encircled 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
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The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and had complete military and political control over large portions of Afghanistan
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Mikhail Gorbachev's programs called "Perestroika" and "Glasnost" introduced changes in economic practice, personal affairs, and international relations. These reforms brought an end to the Cold War.
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In 1989, the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they wanted to
