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Arms Race
The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. -
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Formation of NATO
It is a intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence where its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Korean War
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953)[29][a][31] was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. -
Vietnam War
A Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April,1975. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century (1957-1972) competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
Cuban Missle Crisis Oct. 14-28, 1962
It was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. It was when everyone was in fear of a nuclear war starting