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A Cold War tale reheated for Facebook

A Cold War tale reheated for Facebook Should a spy have a Facebook profile? Well, if he or she wants to fit in with everybody else, the answer is yes. Read more on CNET

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Use Google & Amazon To Find New Customers & Forget About Cold Calling For A Minute

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Cold War: Detente – part 4/5

1969 - 1974 North Vietnam launches a new offensive against the South. The US steps up its bombing campaign but seeks peace through diplomacy. Nixon and Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). The US finally withdraws from Vietnam. Détente culminates in the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. video sexy sex music rock rap funny […]

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Cold War: Space Race – part 1/5

1949 - 1961 In the mid-50s the Soviet Union seems to be forging ahead. In October 1957, the first Soviet satellite Sputnik orbits the earth - to the dismay and fear of the US, frustrated by its own ineffectual space program. In 1961, the Soviets launch Yuri Gagarin into space. America will have to meet […]

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Cold War: Afghanistan – part 1/5

1975 - 1988 Afghanistan is a war that cost the lives of almost 15000 Soviet conscripts and an estimated one million Afghans. The United States supplied billions of dollars of weapons to unlikely allies - Islamic fundamentalists. The result is a Vietnam-style conflict which takes its toll on the Soviets and hastens the end of […]

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Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis – part 1/5

1959 - 1962 Khrushchev decides, with Castros agreement , to install short and medium-range missiles in Cuba, only 90 miles from the US The US detects missile sites and blockades the island. The superpowers confront each other; rather than embark on nuclear war, they each step back. It was close. video sexy sex music rock […]

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Cold War: Berlin Wall – part 1/5

1959 - 1962 The fate of Germany remains unresolved. West Germany has been admitted to NATO. Within East Germany, Berlin is divided between East and West by an open border. Thousands seize the chance to flee the communist system. To keep their people in, the East Germans, with Soviet backing, build The Wall. video sexy […]

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Cold War: Red China – part 4/5

1949 - 1972 Chinese communists win the longest civil war in 20th century history. Mao's land reforms are popular but in 1958, he embarks on a series of catastrophoc changes. China maintains an incrasingly uneasy relationship with the Soviet Union. In 1960, the Sino-Soviet split paves the way for President Nixon's historic visit to Beijing. […]

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Cold War: Soviet Dissolution – part 4/5

1989 - 1991 The US proves the stronger, the Soviet Unon implodes. Germany is reunified. Shorn of its empire and communist domination, Russia faces its future with its economy in chaos. The balance of terror that has kept the peace for more than 40 years vanishes. The Cold War has ended without the use of […]

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Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis – part 4/5

1959 - 1962 Khrushchev decides, with Castros agreement , to install short and medium-range missiles in Cuba, only 90 miles from the US The US detects missile sites and blockades the island. The superpowers confront each other; rather than embark on nuclear war, they each step back. It was close. video sexy sex music rock […]

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Cold War: Soviet Dissolution – part 3/5

1989 - 1991 The US proves the stronger, the Soviet Unon implodes. Germany is reunified. Shorn of its empire and communist domination, Russia faces its future with its economy in chaos. The balance of terror that has kept the peace for more than 40 years vanishes. The Cold War has ended without the use of […]

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Cold War: Spies – part 4/5

1944 - 1994 Early CIA attempts to penetrate the Iron Curtain are thwarted. The US reacts with increasingly sophisticated technological intelligence - the U-2 spy-plane, satelite reconnaissance and eletronic eavesdropping. Yet human spies remain important. Sometimes betrayers, sometimes betrayed, many spies pay with their lives. video sexy sex music rock rap funny news pop dance […]

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Cold War: Space Race – part 2/5

1949 - 1961 In the mid-50s the Soviet Union seems to be forging ahead. In October 1957, the first Soviet satellite Sputnik orbits the earth - to the dismay and fear of the US, frustrated by its own ineffectual space program. In 1961, the Soviets launch Yuri Gagarin into space. America will have to meet […]

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Cold War: Latin America – part 5/5

1954 - 1990 The United States has always regarded Latin America as its own backyard. Fearing the spread of communism, it seeks to destabilze leftist governments. In 1973, the CIA helps overthrow the Chilean president Salvador Allende; in the 1980's it supports right wing extremists in Nicaragua and El Salvador. video sexy sex music rock […]

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