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BERLIN AIRLIFT
In June 1948 the U.S. and Britain announced a proposal for establishing a new currency, the Deutschmark, into West Berlin.During the eleven months of the Berlin Airlift, U.S. and British planes supplied West Berlin with 1.5 million tons of supplies, a plane landing every three minutes, day and night -
U-2 INCIDENT
An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Confronted with the evidence of his nation’s espionage, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962.Over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
VIETNAM WAR