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Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade took place on June 24, 1948 and lasted up until May 12, 1948. It was fought between the USA, Great Britain, France and the Soviet union. Stalin made the blockade to cut off all land and river transit between west berlin and west germany. Western allies responded with a airlift to come to west berlin's aid, it was an attempt by stalin to abandon the city -
Korean War
Was a war fought on June 25, 1950 between the UK,USA, South Korea and North Korea. North Korea people invaded South Korea because North Korea wanted to conquer South Korea and take it over, this was due to high tensions at the Korean Peninsula they attacked along the 38th parallel -
Space Race
Occurred on August 2, 1955 up until July 17, 1975. Was between the USA and the USSR, it was a competition between the USSR and the USA for the pursuit for domination of space flight technologies, the goal was to land a man on the moon , the U.S would be the first to do so. -
Vietnam War
Occurred in November 1, 1955, was fought between the United States and South Vietnam on one hand and North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front, strongly backed by the Soviet Union and mainland China. It was caused because a North Vietnamese torpedo hit a U.S ship and the north vietnamese wanted ti rule under communism but the South Vietnamese didn't, it was the ,longest war in american history and over 60,000 US soldiers died -
Suez Canal
Occured on October 26, 1956 between the British,France and Israel. The egypt government seized control of the Suez Canal from the british and french owned company that managed it, it was provoked by an american and british decision not to finance egypts construction. -
U-2 incident
Occured on May 1, 1960 between the US and the Soviet union. The USSR shot down a US reconnaissance plane, it caused the collapse of the summit conference in paris between the US, USSR, UK and france, -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Occurred on October 16, 1962 between the USA and the Soviet Union, it was a 13 day confrontation where the soviet union was secretly installing missiles in cuba to launch attack on US cities, USSR saw it as a chance to strengthen their relationship with Fidel Castro -
Yom Kippur War
Was a war fought on October 6, 1973 between Israel, Egypt and Syria. It was fought to persuade a chastened undefeated israel who was expanding their territory to negotiate on terms more favorable to the arab countries and to seize a foothold on the eastern bank of the Suez -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
Fought in December 24,1979 between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union, Was fought because The Soviet union wanted to prop up the countries communist government in its battle with anticommunist muslim governments. In response many embargos were placed on the soviet union for their attack -
Able Archer Military Exercise
Occurred on November 1983, between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, it simulated a period of heightened nuclear tensions between NATO and the warsaw pact, leading to concerns that it could of been a real attack, It was basically a war game and an exercise -
Soviets Downing Koreans air Lines flight 007
Fought on December 24, 1979 between Korea and the USSR, it was fought because a plane was flying from seoul from anchorage alaska when it strayed 200 miles from its path when it entered soviet airspace and soviets claimed it was gathering intelligence for the US everyone aboard was killed all 269 passengers, including one hundred plus americans.