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the peak of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the closest the world has ever come to self-destruction.
the vast destruction of WWII left two superpowers standing: the United States and the Soviet Union, both with conflicting ideas of how to restore international order.
U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev declared the official end of the Cold War at the Malta Summit in 1989.
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