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Start of the Space Race
The space race was a period of time when the USSR and USA were trying to get a man to the moon as fast as they could -
Viet Nam War Start
the vietnam was was the american war in vietnam where the americans were trying to stop the spread of communism into south vietnam. -
Hungarian Uprising
this was the first time the USSR had faced a real threat from within. the people of hungary had reached the limit of what they would take from the Russians and decided to take back their country, which in the end failed but they set an example for dozens of other countiries under soviet rule. -
U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
This was an event where the communists they to send nuclear missiles into Cuba and the Americans saw this as a great threat and ended up butting a blockade around Cuba to stop the missiles from reaching Cuba -
End of the Space Race
. Although that the Russians were first in space the USA were the first people to put a man on the moon and in the end won because they were able to keep putting people in space and keep satellites in space. It is said that the USSR started the space race by sending Sputnik 1 into space. -
End of the vietnam war
this marked the end of the war when the last chopper out of saigon left and the americans had fully left the communist vietnam
