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Cold War

By jakesnake

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    Plan to give aid to European economies after WWI to not let Communism spread.

  • NATO

    NATO
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Rasied an apparent threat all Communist countries that are working together and force the alliance to develop a military plan.
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    Korean War

    Fight between South and North Korea wich split by the end of WWII. USA military occupied South Korea and North occupied by Soviet Union.
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    Vietnam War

    French controlled "Indochina"(Vietnam). Then lost control in 1954 and Vietnam was divied in the 17th parallel. A fight between North(communists) and South Vietnam for communism.
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    Warsaw Pact

    Mutual defense treaty between eight communist states in Eastern Eruope during the Cold War.

  • Soviet Launches Sputnik

    Soviet Launches Sputnik
    Russia launched the frist space satillite into space and the USA said we can do better.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    U.S sent the CIA to invade Cuba. But the invasion was a disaster.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Nuclear-armed Cuban missiles were being installed 90 miles south of Florida. The missile would quickly be rached to eastern U.S. If to become operatinal the U.S. and The Soviet Union would become nuclear rivalry.

  • Six Day War

    Six Day War
    War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Israeli took lands from Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

  • US sends a man to the moon

    US sends a man to the moon
    USA sent Neil Armstrong to the moon. The first man ever to step on the moon.

  • Olympic Rivalry: 1972 basketball game USA vs. RUS

    Olympic Rivalry: 1972 basketball game USA vs. RUS
    The first time the USA lost in the Olymics in basketball ever. It was the first younget team that played the USA.

  • 1980 Winter Olymics USA defeats RUS in Ice Hockey

    1980 Winter Olymics USA defeats RUS in Ice Hockey
    The USA won it's frist gold medal against Russia in the Winter Olympics.

  • Berlin Wall Goes Down

    Berlin Wall Goes Down
    People with sledgehammers came to the wall and demolished the wall. Which ended Facism in berlin.

  • German Reunification

    German Reunification
    German Democratic Republican joined the Federal Republic of Germany to reunite Berlin as one.

  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union

    Dissolution of the Soviet Union
    Soviet Union presidant hand the nuclear missile codes the Russian presidant. Which ended the Cold War