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Berlin Blockade
was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. the Sovite Union Blocked Berlin -
Korean War
A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic -
Vietnam War
was a cold conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence -
Sputnik
each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) -
Bay Of Pigs
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961, -
Cuban Missile
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962
