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1947-1989
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the main protagonist of that political economical military and ideological contest USSR and US intervened in the Korean war
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can be considered a proxy war
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served to intensity the arms race and raise cold war tensions
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the CIA believed that president kennedy would allow American military to intervene in Cuba on their behalf.
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it divided berlin into two economies, capitalism and communism
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as the cold war began to throw across eastern Europe the spokesmen for east berlins communist party announced a change in his cities relations with the west
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the closest the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict
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US and USSR agreed to limit the number of nuclear missles in their arsenals
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the soviet union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country.
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the three Baltic republics ( latvia, lithunia and Estonia) had already declared their independence from the USSR only one of its 15 repulics Georgia remained