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The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan.
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Drew the alliances that exist today
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Caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American lif
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Was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel
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Began the space age
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The purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state.
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The closest we ever came to a nuclear war
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Fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s
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Inspired protesters in the USSR. which lead to the collapse of the soviet union
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The process of internal political, economic and ethnic disintegration within the USSR as an unintended result of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's effort of reform of the Soviet political.