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the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin within Western control. -
The North Atlantic Alliance was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe -
North Korea invaded South Korea. South Korea was backed by the US and North Korea by the USSR. This war ended when an armistice was signed. -
The space race was a rivalry between the U.S and the USSR to make history in the stars. -
The Vietnam War pitted communist Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when U.S. forces withdrew -
led by Fidel Castro against the government of Fulgencio Batista. -
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces -
East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin.
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failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro -
After the wall was built, it became impossible to get from East to West Berlin except through one of three checkpoints. This caused the people to riot and at midnight November 9th the wall fell. -
Cold War confrontation over missiles in Cuba between the United States and the Soviet Union that almost caused nuclear war. -
200,000 Soviet troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the liberalization in the communist country. -
The Soviet Afghanistan War was fought between Afghanistan rebels called the Mujahedeen and the Soviet supported Afghanistan government. -
an explosion and fire demolished a reactor building and released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere making the area uninhabitable.
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The fall of the Soviet Union came with a change of power and split the USSR into 15 states
