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  Poland and other states between Germany and the Soviet Union have sometimes been described as buffer states, with reference both to when they were non-communist states before World War II.
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  The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw Poland.
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  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military
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  Atomic bomb during the final stage of world war 11
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  soviet send money to eastern Europe.
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  The extension of military and economic aid to Greece in 1947 plunged the United States into deep involvement in Greek affairs before American public opinion had any understanding
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  us send money to western Europe.
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  The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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  In 1945, the leaders of the Nationalist and Communist parties, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, met for a series of talks on the formation of a post-war government.
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  money to keep nations from going communist.
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  The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.
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  The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea.
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  The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan.
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  The People's Republic of Angola covers the period of Angolan history as a self-declared socialist state established in 1975 after it was granted independence from Portuga.
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  The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War.
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  The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab–Israeli War also named the Tripartite Aggression and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War.
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  The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation.
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  The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian.
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  The People's Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear test on this day in 1964.
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  The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War.
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  The Nicaraguan Revolution (Spanish: Revolución Nicaragüense or Revolución Popular Sandinista) encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship.
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  The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation.
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  The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal.
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  The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'éta was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime.
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  The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe.
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  On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.