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What are tree facts that you know about the Cold War?

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1. Space was an important arena for the Cold War and even led to the creation of NASA.

2.Millions of people were killed in the proxy wars between the US and the USSR during the Cold War.


3.The "hot" parts of the Cold War included the Korean War, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion into Cuba, and the Vietnam War.
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1.The Cold War was fought between the United States of America with the NATO alliance and the Soviet Union with the Warsaw Pact.
2. It’s estimated that more than 11 million people were killed throughout all the various
proxy wars fought by the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
3. The nuclear arms race during the Cold War saw a peak in nuclear weapon stockpiles in 1985, where both countries combined had over 50,000 nuclear weapons.
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