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US Cold War Interventions

Do you know all the countries that the US intervened in during the cold war? The so-called "land of the free".
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Some countries might be missing
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Last updated: February 16, 2022
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1945-1953
Korea
1945-1949
China
1947-1949
Greece
1948-1960s
Italy
1949, 1956-57,
Syria
1949-1953
Albania
1952
Egypt
1953
Iran
1954
Guatemala
1957-1958, 1965-66
Indonesia
1959
Cambodia
1960
Congo
1960
Laos
1961
Cuba
1961
Dominican Republic
1963
Vietnam
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1963
Iraq
1964
Brazil
1966
Ghana
1971
Bolivia
1970-1973
Chile
1974-1991
Ethiopia
1975-1999
East Timor
1976
Argentina
1979
El Salvador
1979-1989
Afghanistan
1980-1992
Angola
1980-1989
Poland
1981-1990
Nicaragua
1983
Grenada
1982
Chad
1989-1994
Panama
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Level 68
Feb 18, 2022
The selection is a bit weird, as it isn't clear what do you mean by 'intervention'? For example, what kind of US intervention in Poland could be seen between 1980 and 1989? BTW: I guess you aren't a fan of 'so-called land of the free', but in those years 80 or 90 % of people would've been very happy if any US intervention had actually occured
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Level 70
Feb 23, 2022
Yes, so Afghanistan and Iraq are so happy by far? You think invasion is just for fun and games, but in reality it's often awful and bloody event to make some money
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Level 68
Mar 3, 2022
You're talking about invasions, but was there any (bloody or not) US military invasion in Poland in 1980s? Please learn some history and then we may discuss it.
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Level 47
Mar 3, 2022
It wasn't military intervention but the CIA did some stuff there in the 80s
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Level 47
Feb 18, 2022
Good point, I used several sources and it includes both military intervention and for example electoral intervention. And sure, you could argue that people in dictatorships would welcome foreign intervention, but the US has always done this to protect its own interests, not the interests of the people. A
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Level 94
Feb 23, 2022
i like it. I think you could just add this explanation about what is considered "intervention" to the caveat before the quiz (I know no one ever reads them beforehand, nonetheless...)
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Level 82
Feb 23, 2022
"the so called 'land of the free'" remark... was that supposed to make some sense? A global power struggle with the Soviet Union somehow made Americans less free?
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Level 70
Feb 23, 2022
Yes, communism was banned in America and made americans less free, and now we have Twitter and Twitch that ban people for their opinions.
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Level 35
Feb 23, 2022
Communism was never banned in America. We have no laws requiring or banning any economic system. Senator Joseph McCarthy held hearings searching for communists in Hollywood who could influence people, as a PR stunt to get attention UNTIL he was run out of town. Social media sites don't ban people for their opinions--they ban lies & those who spread disinformation, & as they do here & on most sites, those who speak of violence or insult people personally. Trump, MTG, & QAnon, all spread inaccurate info--they were warned repeatedly. DJT & MTG specifically posted disinformation about Covid-19. QAnon does little but spread disinformation--reptilians, blood-drinking (which makes people throw up, btw, not feel youthful or whatever), eating babies, conspiracies to market children, steal elections, or the most unlikely characters trying to save the world? Give me a break! Twitter & Twitch are privately owned sites, so no Constitutional limitations apply. They don't speak for "America" either.
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Level 82
Feb 23, 2022
mostly social media platforms ban people to protect their own butts and bottom line. but still bringing this up as a response to what I said is slightly ridiculous.
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Level 35
Mar 3, 2022
No it's not banned in america, but the communist party of the united states has fewer members than Rifondazione Comunista, that is one of the at least 10 italian communist parties
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Level 47
Mar 4, 2022
The communist party was banned in the US1954.
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Level 47
Feb 23, 2022
It is a reference to the United States always claiming to be the guardians of freedom, even though they intervene in democratic elections, practiced segregation until the 60s, persecuted dissidents and so on
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Level 82
Feb 23, 2022
I'm not going to talk smack about you on your own quiz but I'd encourage you to look up where the phrase originated, study the time period, and learn about what it actually meant in the greater context of the world of the early 19th century. From there... keep learning and many of these interventions and those that came before or since start to make a lot more sense.
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Level 47
Feb 24, 2022
Replacing a democratically elected government with a brutal military dictator in Chile and invading Vietnam who’s fighting against colonialism and committing war crimes in the process don’t make any sense to me at least.
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Level 85
Feb 24, 2022
Yeah, the US promotes itself as a defender of democracy, but our history is full of examples of us doing the opposite. During the Cold War we propped up several governments that were as brutal as any Communist regime.
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Level 70
Feb 23, 2022
Great quiz! It must be featured
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Level 71
Feb 23, 2022
it is missing somalia venezuela israel yugoslavia etc
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Level 62
Feb 23, 2022
The combat in Bosnia was a NATO operation, so I wouldn't count that one, if that's what you meant.

Somalia, we could say that has been a U.N. effort (the U.S. was certainly a driving force in it).

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Level 47
Feb 24, 2022
Those are after the cold war
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Level 59
Jan 18, 2023
Missing Lebanon in 1958 and 1982