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1 day ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
5 days ago · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
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Jun 25, 2024 · Cuban missile crisis, major confrontation at the height of the Cold War that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of a shooting war in October 1962 over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. The crisis was a defining moment in the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
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5 days ago · What was the Cold War? How did the Cold War end? Why was the Cuban missile crisis such an important event in the Cold War? What was Harry S. Truman's reaction to communist North Korea's attempt to seize noncommunist South Korea in 1950? Should the United States maintain the embargo enforced by John F. Kennedy against Cuba?
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1 day ago · Next came two major waves of post-Cold War enlargement, in 1999 and 2004, when several European countries and the Baltics joined. The alliance later shifted to focus on international operations ...
5 days ago · Reagan escalated the Cold War, accelerating a reversal from the policy of détente, which had begun in 1979 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan feared that the Soviet Union had gained a military advantage over the United States, and the Reagan administration hoped that heightened military spending would grant the U.S. military ...
Jun 29, 2024 · In 1945, British troops occupied Germany alongside their wartime Soviet allies. But growing East-West tensions soon evolved into the Cold War. For the next four decades, soldiers in Germany prepared to face an attack by the Warsaw Pact. find out more.
