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Period of time where people fear the wide spread of communism
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The United States dropped bomb on Hiroshima, killing 80,000
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki, killing 70,000.
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The Soviet Union blocked Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to parts of Berlin under Western Control.
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Invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel. This was followed by the United Kingdom and France.
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Nationwide revolution between the Hungarian's Peoples Republic and its Soviet-imposed Policies.
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An American U-2 Spy Plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces.
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Soviet Union cut off land access between West Germany and West Berlin
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Failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles.
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Direct confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. This was also the closest the two countries got to a nuclear war.
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Troops with assault rifles and tanks fired at those who blocked the military's advancement into Tiananmen Square
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