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The Cold War Confrontations
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Description: A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Involved Countries: United States, Soviet Union, Cuba
Berlin Blockade
Description: One of the first major international crises of the Cold War, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. Involved Countries: Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom, France
Korean War
Description: A war between North Korea, with the support of China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, backed by the United Nations primarily the United States. Involved Countries: North Korea, South Korea, China, United States, Soviet Union
Vietnam War
Description: A protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Involved Countries: North Vietnam, South Vietnam, United States
U-2 Incident
Description: An American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, causing the 1960 Four Powers summit in Paris to collapse. Involved Countries: United States, Soviet Union
Sputnik Crisis
Description: The United States public's reaction to the realization that the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial Earth satellite. Involved Countries: United States, Soviet Union
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Description: A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Involved Countries: Hungary, Soviet Union
Prague Spring
Description: A period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Involved Countries: Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union
Berlin Crisis of 1961
Description: A political-military confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning the status of the divided German city of Berlin. Involved Countries: United States, Soviet Union, East Germany, West Germany
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Description: A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. Involved Countries: United States, Cuba
NATO Formation
Description: Establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance for collective defense against aggression. Involved Countries: United States, Canada, Western European countries
Warsaw Pact Formation
Description: A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Involved Countries: Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc countries
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Description: The first joint U.S.-Soviet space flight, and the last flight of an Apollo spacecraft. Involved Countries: United States, Soviet Union
Able Archer 83
Description: A ten-day NATO command post exercise starting on November 2, 1983, which almost escalated into a full-scale nuclear world war. Involved Countries: NATO countries, Soviet Union
Nixon's Visit to China
Description: A significant step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. Involved Countries: United States, People's Republic of China
SALT I
Description: The first of two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which led to an agreement on the limitation and regulation of arms between the United States and Soviet Union. Involved Countries: United States, Soviet Union
SALT II
Description: A second round of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union on armament control. Involved Countries: United States, Soviet Union
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
Description: An international treaty, which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament. Involved Countries: Signed by 191 countries, including the five nuclear-armed states
Soviet-Afghan War
Description: A conflict wherein insurgent groups (known collectively as the mujahideen), as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government throughout the 1980s. Involved Countries: Soviet Union, Afghanistan, United States (covertly)
Operation Condor
Description: A campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, officially and formally implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America. Involved Countries: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, (with the cooperation of the United States)
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