During the cold war tension was very high, yet when Stalin died in 1953, his replacement Nikita Khrushchev spoke of peaceful co-existenceand de-Stalinisation which meant that tension eased as neither side was expecting asurprise attack.
Detente.
The Thaw.
The easing of tensions between the west and USSR.
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1955, part of the cold war against communist expansion.
The cold war was refrozen with the U-2 incident. In 1960, an American U-2 Spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. At first the U.S. tried to deny the spy mission, but was forced to admit it when faced with evidence. This event broke the already tenuous relationship down.
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he sent the u.s. military to the Vietnam in 1955
The Cold War, spanning from 1945 to 1991, was marked by a geopolitical struggle between the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its satellite states. Key events included the Berlin Blockade (1948-1949), the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the Vietnam War (1955-1975), and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989). The Cold War began to thaw with policies like détente in the 1970s and ultimately culminated in the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, marking the end of the ideological conflict.