Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91
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- The Grand Alliance and early tension
- Soviet expansion and the US response
- The Berlin Blockade and NATO
- The arms race and the Hungarian Uprising
- The Berlin Crisis and the Berlin Wall
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Czechoslovakia, 1968
- Détente
- Afghanistan and the 'Second Cold War'
- Reagan, Gorbachev and arms control
- The end of the Cold War
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