Numerous other incidents like the ones in 1950's occurred in later decades. One happened in 1968 in Czechoslovakia when the Soviet Union went to bring down the Czech's reformist government. Another was when the Soviet Union went into Afghanistan to make sure their communist government would not be overthrown in 1979. The United States also supported the overthrowing of Fidel Castro in 1961, and in 1983, the United States invaded the island of Geneva to get rid of their Marxist regime. Also between 1965 and 1975 when the United States went into Korea to help the South Koreans defend themselves against the communist North Koreans. The North Koreans were being helped and aided by the communist countries, one being the Soviet Union. In the mid-1970's, Moscow helped to keep Marxist regimes in power by helping to send Cuban troops to both Angola and Ethiopia. In the early 1980's, Moscow used threats of using force to keep the Solidarity movement from overthrowing the communist regime in Poland.

Periods of tension and crisis and periods of reduced tension and limited cooperation caused alternated relations between the Soviet Union and the United States throughout the cold war. The United States and the Soviet Union never indulged against each other militarily, but both were in crises that could have led up to war against each other. Some of these crises included the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948 to 1949, threats by the Soviets to cut off access to West Berlin in which started in the 1958 and ended in 1961, the Cuban missile crisis in the early 1970's, and the U.S. bombardment of Hanoi and Hainphong in 1972. After the mid-1970's, the crisis lessened quickly mainly because of the strong and powerful nuclear deterrents possessed by each side.

In the 1960's, though, things started to change as each side were starting to look differently at their own allies. The countries of the west and the east were no longer remaining in their large blocs. In the Eastern bloc, China thought that the Soviet Union had been secretly allied with the United States, so countries were becoming split out of their bloc having to believe one of the countries. In the Western bloc, France was criticizing the United States for their policies, and they wanted Europe to have an independent leadership.

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