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+---
 aliases:
   - Berlin Wall
   - Wall
   - Berliner Mauer
-category: "Cold War Events"
+category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 tags:
   - Event
   - Germany

40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Cuban Missile Crisis.md

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+---
 aliases:
   - Cuban Missile Crisis
   - Caribbean Crisis
   - October Crisis
-category: "Cold War Events"
+category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 tags:
   - Event
   - ColdWar

40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Gulf of Tonkin Incident.md

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+---
 created: 2026-05-15
-updated: 2026-05-15
+updated: 2026-05-17
 title: Gulf of Tonkin Incident
 aliases:
   - Gulf of Tonkin
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags:
   - ColdWar
   - 1960s
   - NSA
-category: "Military Conflict"
+category: "Major Conflict"
 summary: "The Gulf of Tonkin Incident refers to the August 2 and 4, 1964 incidents in which a genuine North Vietnamese attack on the USS Maddox was followed by a second 'attack' on August 4 that almost certainly never occurred, yet was used by the Johnson administration to obtain the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing open-ended military escalation in Vietnam - a deception confirmed by NSA declassified documents released in 2005."
 date: 1964-08-04
 location: "Gulf of Tonkin, off North Vietnam"

40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Hungarian Revolution.md

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+---
 created: 2026-05-15
 updated: 2026-05-16
 title: Hungarian Revolution
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags:
   - CIA
   - SovietUnion
   - 1950s
-category: "Political Uprising"
+category: "Major Conflict"
 summary: "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide uprising against Soviet-backed communist rule that began October 23, 1956, was crushed by Soviet military intervention on November 4, and whose failure - despite Radio Free Europe's 'rollback' rhetoric - destroyed Frank Wisner and ended the Eisenhower administration's 'liberation' policy."
 start: 1956-10-23
 end: 1956-11-10

40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/Iran-Iraq War.md

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-category: "Major Conflicts"
+---
+category: "Major Conflict"
 tags:
   - Event
   - Iran
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags:
   - ColdWar
 summary: "The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was an eight-year conflict in which Western powers, the CIA, and Gulf states covertly supported Saddam Hussein's Iraq while the Reagan administration simultaneously ran secret arms to Iran; the war produced massive casualties, extensive use of chemical weapons against Iranian and Kurdish populations, and the arms procurement networks at the center of the Iran-Contra affair."
 created: 2026-05-14
-updated: 2026-05-14
+updated: 2026-05-17
 ---
 
 The Iran-Iraq War was an armed conflict fought between [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]] from September 22, 1980, to August 20, 1988. [[Saddam Hussein]]'s Iraqi forces invaded Iran along a broad front following the instability created by the [[Iranian Revolution]] of 1979, which had deposed the Shah [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] and brought the [[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini|Islamic Republic]] to power. The war lasted eight years, killed an estimated 500,000 to one million people, and ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire with no territorial changes. It is among the most costly conflicts of the late twentieth century.[^1]

40 - EVENTS/MAJOR_CONFLICTS/World War II.md

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-category: "Major Conflicts"
+---
+category: "Major Conflict"
 tags:
   - Event
   - WorldWarII
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
   - ColdWar
 summary: "World War II (1939-1945) is the global conflict from which the modern American intelligence community was born: the OSS became the CIA, Nazi scientists and intelligence officers were recruited through Operation Paperclip and other stay-behind programs, and the organizational networks, personnel, and covert operational culture of the Cold War era were all shaped by wartime arrangements."
 created: 2026-05-14
-updated: 2026-05-14
+updated: 2026-05-17
 ---
 
 World War II was the global conflict fought from September 1, 1939, to September 2, 1945, between the Allied powers (principally the United States, United Kingdom, [[Soviet Union]], France, China, and dozens of allied nations) and the Axis powers ([[Nazi Germany]], [[Japan]], and [[Italy]]). The war killed an estimated 70 to 85 million people, making it the deadliest conflict in human history. It reshaped the political map of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]], ended the European colonial empires, and established the post-war order - including the [[United Nations]], the [[Bretton Woods]] financial system, and the Cold War division of the world between U.S. and Soviet spheres.[^1]