Can you give me 3-4 significant events that altered the course of the Cold War?

1) The Space Race definitely intensified the Cold War, beginning with the Soviet launch of Sputnik.

2) The Cuban Missile Crisis was a turning point because it showed that compromise is possible.

3) The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan prolonged the Cold War relations.

Cold War TIMELINE

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Cold War

The cold war started in the year 1947 and continued till 1989 or December 1991. However many people still differ about the start and the end of the war. Some consider the initial cause of the war to be the rising tension between the Soviet Union and the United States that worsened in between 1945 and 1947. It finally ended with the fall of the Soviet Union on the 25th of December in the year 1991.

It got termed as Cold War because there weren't any instances of open hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States. The war was instead manifested in the form of nuclear weapons, military alliances, proxy wars, espionage and propaganda among other things. Some of the most important instances in the cold war were the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Blockade, and the other wars such as the Koran war, the Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War.

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i might hone in on No.18, yet with a proviso that it extremely replaced into the 2nd one million/2 of a 2 act Political Drama. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The 'Iron Curtain' crashed down in 1945 and remoted The Soviet Bloc from Western Europe to 'safeguard' the Communist peoples of Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Roumania, Lithuania, Latvia from the 'evil machinations and wicked impact of Capitalists, who might pollute the employees Paradise and and positioned across corruption to the Soviet Bloc.' That replaced into the Bolshevik's line, and what it extremely meant replaced into, no Democracy, nor freedom of speech, no political dissension and living below a vicious Dictatorship. the autumn of The Wall replaced right into a rallying cry to Freedom and Democracy.