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historians cant fully agree but 1947-91 is the main time of the cold war.
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the Chinese Civil War and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950–53), the conflict expanded. The USSR and USA competed for influence in Latin America,
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cuban missile crisis is going on
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soviet nukes found in cuba.
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america thought about invading cuba and taking control of everything.
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jfk let america know about his paln to stop nukeular shipment to cuba by a blockade of ships.
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soviet says the blockade will be ignored and nukes will still go to cuba. america went into defcon 2 witch is the closes the has ever bin to nukeular war
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By the 1970s, both sides had become interested in accommodations to create a more stable and predictable international system, inaugurating a period of détente that saw Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the US opening relations with the People's Republic of China as a strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union
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Vigorously suppressing any opposition from among the traditional Muslim Afghans, the government arrested thousands and executed as many as 27,000
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Détente collapsed at the end of the decade with the Soviet war in Afghanistan beginning in 1979.
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By April 1979 large parts of the country were in open rebellion and by December the government had lost control of territory outside of the cities.