THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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the space race
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the Cuban Missile Crisis
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the creation of the NAACP
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the enactment of the 1965 Immigration Act
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the competitive buildup of nuclear weapons
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did hostilities increase between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s? The CIA intervened with the communist situations. Then the Soviets’ alliance with its satellite nations (Warsaw Pact).
Detailed explanation-2: -As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Major crises of this phase included the 1948–1949 Berlin Blockade, the 1945–1949 Chinese Communist Revolution, the 1950–1953 Korean War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1961 Berlin Crisis, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and the 1964–1975 Vietnam War.
Detailed explanation-4: -After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its satellite states began a decades-long struggle for supremacy known as the Cold War.