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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The intention was to force Japan to surrender, thus avoiding a long war in the Pacific. This action had the added potential of pressurizing the USSR into negotiating over Eastern Europe and Germany. -
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Berlin Blockade
was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
NATO
the defence and the protection of its members from potential threats emanating from the Soviet Union. -
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Korean War
because it was the first time that the two superpowers , the United States and the Soviet Union, had fought a 'proxy war ' in a third country. -
Suez crisis
Suez Crisis threatened regional stability and challenged the U.S. relationship with two primary Cold War allies, Britain and France. -
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Vietnam War
It was to prevent Communist domination of South-East Asia. -
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba -
Assasination of JFK
He urged Americans to critically reexamine Cold War stereotypes and myths and called for a strategy of peace that would make the world safe for diversity. -
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Soviets invade Afghanistan/Soviet Afghan War
The aim of the Soviet operation was to prop up their new but faltering client state -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Eastern Europe created an independent, democratic momentum that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall