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Beginning of north korea and south korea
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Egypt announced its plans to nationalize the Suez Canal
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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an American research ship USS Pueblo is captured by the North Koreans
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Reagan and Gorbachev hold successful talks and agree to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
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signals the easing of strained relations between the United States and Soviet Union
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev sign limitations for nuclear weapons.
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Fall of the Berlin wall
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the start of the end of the Cold War.
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all Soviet institutions are disbanded and cease operations, officially marking the end of the Cold War
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Beginning of the Korean War