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cold war events
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cuban missile crisis
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Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
Program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to west Berlin during a soviet blockade. -
creation of NATO and the Warsaw pact
the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
korean war
the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
vietnam war
It was a direct result of the First Indochina War between France which claimed Vietnam as a colony and the communist forces then. In 1973 a third Vietnam war began a continuation, actually between North and South Vietnam but without significant U.S. involvement -
sputnik
Sputnik 1 burned up, as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, after travelling about 43.5 million miles and spending three months in orbit. -
bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
creation of the berlin wall
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight -
cuban missile crisis
an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. -
disarmament agreements
the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile buildup designed to reach parity with the United States. -
soviet invasion of afghanistan
The War lasted over nine years. Insurgent groups who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces -
gorbachev's reforms
gorbachev's reforms was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform. -
fall of the berlin wall
as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
