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  The first phase of the cold world war began in the first two yearsafter of second world war in 1945.
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  Published 19 October 1945 in the british newspaper tribune.
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  The cold war when asked in 1947 about the source of the team , lippmann traced it to a french form the 1930s
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  was the first major crisis of the cold war
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  the chienese civil war and the out break of the Korean war 1950-53
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  the expanison and escalation sparked more crises, such as the suez crisis
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  The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engagled in a tense 13 day political
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  The USSR crused the 1968 prague springliberlization peogram in czechosiovakia and the vietnam war (1955-1975)
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  both sides had become interested in accmmodations to create a more stable and perdictable international
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  Detente collapsed at the end of the decade with Soviet war in Afganistan beginning in 1979
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  The early 1980s were another period of elevated tension, with the soviet downing of korean air lines flight 1983 and the " Able Archer" Nato military exercises 1983.