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The Berlin Airlift was when the U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. https://thekholdwar.weebly.com/10-major-events.html
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The Korean war began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid.https://thekholdwar.weebly.com/10-major-events.html
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The Vietnam war was a military conflict between South Vietnam which were support by the United States against communist North Vietnam. The war ended in North Vietnam winning and the unification of Vietnam under communist rule.
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The Sputnik Crisis was a period of public fear and anxiety in Western nations about the technological gap between the United States and Soviet Union caused by the Soviets' launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.
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The Space Race was the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability.
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In 1961 the United States sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government. They failed miserably. The invasion is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in the Americas.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was the moment when the two superpower countries came closest to nuclear conflict. https://thekholdwar.weebly.com/10-major-events.html
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The Non-Proliferation Treaty was a multilateral treaty which aimed at limiting the spread of nuclear weapons including such things as non-proliferation, disarmament, and peaceful use of nuclear energy.
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The Soviet-Afghan War was when the Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the communist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan against a growing insurgency.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was on November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to go across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced that starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens were free to cross the country's borders.
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