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Arms Race
A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied controlled areas of Berlin the United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. -
Korean War
The invasion was the first military action of the cold war by July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. -
Joseph Stalin dies
He died of a stroke in the 3rd of March in 1953 and was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. -
Space Race
Was a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight. -
ICBM'S
Long range missels -
Fidel Castro
Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-2016) established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades, until handing off power to his younger brother Raúl in 2008. -
Bay of Pigs Invaison
U.S president John F Kennedy approved of a plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of pigs by exiled Cuban fighters the purpose was to revolt against Castro. The invasion was a disaster. -
Berlin Wall
The purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western fascists from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
Fidel Castro Missile crisis
Was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict -
Vietnam war
U.S troops were sent to Vietnam to keep the Communist regime of North Vietnam from invading and controlling South Vietnam -
soviet invasion of afghanistan
Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. -
Chernobyl Rrussia
The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators. It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture. -
German Unification
It was the Prussian name for aristocratic land owner and Prussia in the east names Otto von. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
