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What were the major turning points in the Cold War?

Question by JAZZY VEE: What were the major turning points in the development of the Cold War?
please help! I need to finish this packet. I’m almost done.
And if you don’t know please send the links so I can find it..

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Answer by Distant Traveler
Russian occupation of East Europe after WW2
Chinese proxy war in Korea
Russian detonates an atomic bomb
Partitioning of Germany
Cuban missile crises

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  1. Michael N says

    Civil war in Greece; Truman Doctrine
    Soviet atomic bomb
    Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
    Berlin airlift
    Chinese Revolution; Mccarthy era
    Death of Stalin
    Outbreak of Korean War; Soviet boycott of UN
    Death of Stalin
    Invasion of Hungary
    Sputnik
    Cuban Revolution
    1960 election; missle gap
    U2
    Berlin Wall
    Sino-Soviet border war
    Bay of Pigs
    Cuban Missle Crisis
    Limited Test-Ban Treaty
    Ouster of Krushchev
    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    Invasion of Checoslovakia
    SALT I & II
    Nixon visit to China
    Golpe de estado in Chile
    U.S. defeat in Vietnam
    Ethiopian civil war
    Angolan civil war
    Invasion of Afghanistan; Olympic boycott (1980)
    Invasion of Granada
    START
    Star Wars
    Nicaragua, El Salvador
    Perostrokya
    Failed coup d'etat in USSR
    Soviet defeat in Afganistan
    Fall of Berlin Wall
    Breakup of Soviet Union

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  2. *()()() FurElise()() says

    China turning Communist
    Sputnik
    Soviet Union + US "arms race"
    Threat of nuclear weapons
    Cuba (Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs,etc)
    Soviet Union setting up missiles in Latin America

    Oh dear, I really should know more…..the AP US History test is in a few weeks *shoots self*

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  3. Lamont Cranston says

    They were slowly winning, until Russia invaded Afghanistan, then ran into Reagan.

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  4. G Mac says

    china going communist
    each side getting bigger, better nuclear weapons.
    gulf of tonkin
    bay of pigs and Cuban missile crisis
    development of ICBM's by both the US and USSR starting MAD.

    some of the bigger ones.

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