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The Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War began in 1944 as the Germans left the country. Britain and America supported the government against local Communists. Very brutal on both sides, it was an early conflict of the Cold War. 50 000 people died. The war ended in 1949. -
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The Greek Civil War
Τhe Greek Civil War was a civil war in Greece fought between the Greek government army and the Democratic Army of Greece. The military branch of the Communist Party of Greece from 1946 to 1949. The Soviet Union avoided sending aid. The fighting resulted in the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece by the Hellenic Army. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin blockade was a international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.
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The Berlin Blockade
The 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. 2.5 million civilians had no access to food, medicine, fuel, electricity and other basic goods.
Eventually, the western powers instituted an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered vital supplies and relief to West Berlin. The Blockade ended the 12 of may of 1949 -
The Nuclear Race (MAD)
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive. The communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people were killed in the Vietnam War. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War happened in 11/1/1955 in Vietnam. The communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year. A lot of people died. -
The Hungarian Uprising
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The Hungarian Uprising
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Leaderless at the beginning, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the Red Army drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the End of World War II in Europe.
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The Nuclear Race (MAD)
The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. The Maximum of Warheads of USA were 31.000 in 1967-68 whereas the USSR had his maximum of Warheads near 1990 with 40.000 Warheads -
The Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" from building a socialist state in East Germany. The Wall was demolished in 9 of November of 1989. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. The crisis ended 12 days later, in the 28 of October, with removal of the USSR's and USA's nuclear missiles. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
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The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by 5 countries – the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary – 250,000 Warsaw pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia that night. 137 Czechoslovakian civilians were killed and 500 seriously wounded during the occupation. The Pact ended with the Warsaw Pact victory. -
The Invasion of Afghanistan
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The Invasion of Afghanistan
The Invasion of Afghanistan was a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government for over nine years, mostly in the Afghan countryside. The mujahideen were backed primarily by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Kingdom making it a Cold War proxy war. Between 562,000 and 2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees mostly to Pakistan and Iran. The Invasion ended in the 15 of february of 1989
