... other countries public into believing they were more powerful. Over and over again the U.S would flex its muscles and then The Soviet Union would flex it's muscles until eventually one country couldn't. The Cold War lasted a very long time and it was fought through battles such as the Korean War and Vietnam. Each battle split the ... country and the U.S would take a side and The Soviet Union would take a side and they would use the country as a battle ground. This was the only actual fighting that occurred. The Cuban missile crisis was an important event that took ... ...

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... Soviet Union and the United States were building their ballistic missile defense reserves to out power one and another. Both sides realized that having so many giant missiles in their country could be a target for the other side's missiles. Fearing attacks on their missile reserves both sides starting building interceptor missiles. This merely allowed a greater store of ballistic missiles in both ... ...

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