Cold War (1962-1991)

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	conflict	Cold War
	caption	'''Clockwise from top''': United States President John F Kennedy and Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev meet in a 1961 summit held in Vienna East German border guards at the Berlin Wall the first Soviet nuclear weapon Joe 1 is tested American soldiers land in Vietnam during the Vietnam War Sputnik 1 is launched into orbit (triggering the Space Race )
	date	1947&ndash1989
	place	Proxy War s in Vietnam , Afghanistan and Korea Communist uprisings in China , Cuba , Mozambique , Angola , Laos etc Anti-communist uprisings in Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Romania , and Poland Global Arms Race between the United States and their NATO allies, and the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact

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