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Berlin Airlift
Britain and the U.S announced a new proposal. The Deutschmark into west Berlin.This caused chaos the soviet was everywhere trying to adjust to the new system this caused everything to erupt they closed all rails road travel. But however the air travel was still open. This event started the Berlin airlift. Wile the U.S and the British were supplying the people supplies they went over 1.5 million tons. They gave them food, meds and so on to live.This s how the war was fought. -
NATO
NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This sought to create some what of a counterweight. So the soviet armies stationed in the eastern and central Europe. Another part of this treaty was to strengthen the western part of Europe and so they don't become communist. It was signed April 4, 1949 -
Korean war
The Korean war ended.North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while South Korea stuck with the U.S -
Warsaw pact
This was formed with member states. East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the soviet union. -
sputnik
Sputnik, 1957. Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1. As a result, the launch of Sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions. During the 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union were working to develop new technology. -
Space race
This was a battle between the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight. the race peaked when the U.S landed the first humans on the moon. With Apollo 11. -
U-2 incident
The U-2 Incident. Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission: to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. -
A Bay of pigs invasion
It was a force of Cuban exiles. They were trained by the CIA, aided by the US government. They were attempting to invade Cuba. To overthrow the communist government. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin wall was finally built. It was to seal east and west Germany. This was all after the Berlin air lift. At the time they didn't have the wall only a blockade. -
Cuban missile crisis
A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the weapons. The United States agreed not to invade Cuba. -
vietnam
North invaded the south. they did this action so the south wouldn't become communist. because communist is bad very bad. -
Olympic boycott Russia
Russia along with their 13 other allies had just had to boycott the summer Olympics. It was held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US one in 1980. To me this seems like a bunch of little school girls holding grudges. -
cold war coming to the end
During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Fall of the 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. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Gorbachev resigned
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The hammer and sickle flag on the Kremlin was lowered. And not one person was sad. -
End of the soviet union
Russia formally recognized the end of the Soviet Union. Man isn't this great they finally gave up because they realized it wasn't worth it anymore.
