Introduction to the Cold War

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Introduction to the Cold War
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Miracle on Ice
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The Cold War

• Definition A state of hostility, without direct
  military conflict, that developed between the
  United States and the Soviet Union after WW2.

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Extent of the Cold War

• 1945 until collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
• Touched all the below conflicts/issues
• Nuclear Arms Race
• Berlin Airlift/ Berlin Wall
• Korean War
• Bay of Pigs
• U2 Crisis
• Sputnik
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Man on the Moon
• Vietnam War
• Afghanistan