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  Lasted over a year.
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  Was a war between North and South Korea,in which a United States of American fought for the South,and China fought for the North,which was also assiisted by the Soviet Union.
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  The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball.
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  A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
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  cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989.
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  Was direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
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  War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam