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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
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East German authorities begin building a wall–the Berlin Wall–to permanently close off access to the West.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile.
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the Strategic Arms Limitation were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union
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The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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East and west Germany reunited, East Germany was no longer Communist, and this was evidence that the War Saw Pact's days were numbered
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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea
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US's CIA had a plane trying to spy on the Soviets and the Soviets shot it down and this lead to an embarrassing conference between US and Soviets.
