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International politics
The Hungarian revolution expanded into a war of independence. The Imperial governor was forced to accept all 12 of their demands. -
Berlin Airlift
Cargo planes carried and delivered fuel, food and many other essential goods to the people in West Berlin for an eleven month period of the Cold War during 1948-49. The Soviet forces closed all surface accesses such as road, rail and river, and tried to isolate the British, American and French sectors of the city. -
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Berlin Airlift
Cargo planes carried and delivered fuel, food and many other essential goods to the people in West Berlin for an eleven month period of the Cold War during 1948-49. The Soviet forces closed all surface accesses such as road, rail and river, and tried to isolate the British, American and French sectors of the city. -
Korean war
The Korean War was because of the conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea. Rival governments were recognized and then the conflict between them became more stressed. On June 25, 1950 North Korean forces invaded South Korea. -
colombo plan
The Colombo Plan is not for important and dependent responsibilities but it is an organization for involving help and assistance for the economic and social development of the area. -
Continental defense
This is a system of radar stations throughout the far northern Arctic region of Canada, North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. These stations were used to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War and also a warning of invasion and attack. -
Suez Crisis
It was a diplomatic and military confrontation between Egypt as one, and Britain, France and Israel as the other. Other major roles were involved forcing Britain, France and Israel to with drawl. Israel bombed Cairo; Anglo-French forces withdrew before the end and Israeli forces stayed until March 1957. By April, the canal was reopened along with consequences. The bombing happened for the regain of western control of the canal and to remove Nasser from power. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was the divider between West Berlin and East Germany. Also it was the representative border between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
It was so close to come to a nuclear war as the U.S. armed forces were more than ready and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were ready to use nuclear weapons to use to defend themselves but President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev stopped the war. -
Nuclear Question
After the short intense crisis there came the most serious U.S–Soviet confrontation of the Cold War. President Kennedy and his closest advisors put all of their attention upon this situation where the Kennedy- Khrushchev agreement took place. It had been extremely looked over and had been explained in many methods. -
Peacekeeping Mission
In Cyprus, it was to prevent the fighting between the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots from happening again and to help to maintain and restore the law and order and return to regular conditions. Ten years later the UN Security Council increases the mission to stop the later Cyprus dispute from a war. -
Nicaragua
The campaign was led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front which led to the violent banishing of that dictatorship in 1979. The revolution was very substantial in the unfamiliar policy for Nicaragua, Central America and the Americas. The civil war was one of the substitution wars in the Cold war. -
Afghanistan
It was 9-year substitution war during the Cold war which involved the Soviet Union, assisting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. A friendship treaty with the Soviet Union and the U.S. was signed on December 5, 1978 as well as on July 3, 1979, the first instruction for secret help to the enemies of the pro-Soviet government in Kabul was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. -
Gorbachev Revolution Perestroika
Perestroika let more independent actions from the many ministries and introduces some market-life improvements. The reason of this was to make socialism work much more efficiently to more appropriately satisfy the needs of Soviet consumers. -
Us star wars
The strategic defense initiative focused on their strategic defense rather than strategic offense. They were told to use ground and space-based systems to protect the U.S. from invasion. Their plan to strategize was criticized and called unrealistic. This was soon public in the mainstream media called “Star Wars”. -
Olympic Politics
The summer Olympics took place in this year in Los Angeles, California, U.S. The only other interested city was Tehran and they dropped their bid because of the Iranian political and social alterations the IOC gave Los Angeles the Games by default. -
Espionage - Igor Gouzenko
Igor Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa. On September 5th he gave up allegiance with the Soviet embassy, with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West which forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a RC in order to investigate espionage in Canada. -
Summit Series
The Summit Series was the first 8-game rivalry between the Soviet and an NHL-inclusive Canadian national ice hockey teams. The result was Canada for the victory with 4 games to 3 along with 1 tie.
