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policy of containment
1947-1989 -
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korean war
the main protagonist of that political economical military and ideological contest USSR and US intervened in the Korean war -
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vietnam war
can be considered a proxy war -
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launch of sputnik
served to intensity the arms race and raise cold war tensions -
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bay of pigs invasion
the CIA believed that president kennedy would allow American military to intervene in Cuba on their behalf. -
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creation of berlin wall
it divided berlin into two economies, capitalism and communism -
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fall of berlin wall
as the cold war began to throw across eastern Europe the spokesmen for east berlins communist party announced a change in his cities relations with the west -
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cuban missle crisis
the closest the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict -
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salt 1 and salt 2
US and USSR agreed to limit the number of nuclear missles in their arsenals -
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soviet invasion of afghanistan
the soviet union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
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fall of communism in the USSR
the three Baltic republics ( latvia, lithunia and Estonia) had already declared their independence from the USSR only one of its 15 repulics Georgia remained