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American initiative to aid Western Europe and to help rebuild Western Europe after the end of WWII
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Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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War between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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War between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War, led by the USSR.
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First artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit.
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Overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
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A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
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13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba.
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Claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Commits U.S. combat troops, in cooperation with South Vietnamese units, against communist troop sanctuaries in Cambodia.
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Watergate Scandal
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The North Vietnamese government accuses South Vietnam and the United States of having authorized attacks on Hon Me and Hon Ngu, two of their islands in the Tonkin Gulf.
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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 Soviet Union signed the Geneva Accords with the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan that created a timetable for withdrawal.
