<Li> June 14: Falkland Islands liberated by British task force . End of the Falklands War . </Li> <Li> November 10: Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev </Li> <Li> November 14: Yuri Andropov becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union . </Li> <Ul> <Li> January: Soviet spy Dieter Gerhardt is arrested in New York . </Li> <Li> March 8: In speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire". </Li> <Li> March 23: Ronald Reagan proposes the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or "Star Wars"). </Li> <Li> July 7: Ten - year - old Samantha Smith accepts the invitation of Soviet premiere Yuri Andropov and visits the Soviet Union with her parents . Smith had written to Andropov to ask if he would "vote to have a war or not?" Smith's letter, published in the Soviet newspaper Pravda, prompted Andropov to reply and invite the girl to the U.S.S.R. The widely publicized event leads to other Soviet - American cultural exchanges . </Li> <Li> August 21: The late senator Benigno "Ninoy" S. Aquino was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now Ninoy Aquino International Airport). </Li> <Li> September 1: Civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007, with 269 passengers, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald, is shot down by Soviet interceptor aircraft . </Li> <Li> September 26: The U.S.S.R. nuclear early warning system reports launch of multiple U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles . Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, correctly identifies them as false alarms . This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack based on erroneous data on the United States and its NATO allies, which likely would have resulted in nuclear war and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people . </Li> <Li> October 25: U.S. forces invade the Caribbean island of Grenada in an attempt to overthrow the Marxist military government, expel Cuban troops, and abort the construction of a Soviet - funded airstrip . </Li> <Li> November 2: Exercise Able Archer 83--Soviet anti-aircraft misinterpret a test of NATO's nuclear warfare procedures as a fake cover for an actual NATO attack; in response, Soviet nuclear forces are put on high alert . </Li> </Ul>

Which event of world war ii would later lead to the cold war