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Greek Civil War
The greek civil war was a civil war in Greece fought between the Greek government army (supported by the United Kingdom and the United States) and the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) — the military branch of the Communist Party of Greece -
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The nuclear race
The United States was engaged in a Cold War nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union to build more advanced bombs from 1947 until 1991. So the US launched 30 atomic bombs in Enewetak Atoll -
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The Berlin Blockade
When Germany was occupied by different powers after WW2, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche Mark from West Berlin. -
The Hungarian Uprising
The Hungarian uprising or revolution was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
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The wall of Berlin
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 Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany -
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 invasion of Czechoslovakia
officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary, Warsaw pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia one night, with Romania and Albania refusing to participate. -
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The Vietnam war
North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war, considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some, lasted 19 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973, -
Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen (that were with USA), as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government for over nine years
