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Cold war
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Berlin Airlift
It is a program in which U.S. and british pilots flew supplies to west Berlin during a Soviet blockade -
Korean war
It was a fight of north and south korea and the U.S. fought for the south -
Creation of NATO and the warsaw pact
8 member states agreed to join forces if any state was attacked -
Vietnam War
Was known as the second indochina war -
Sputnik
It was the worlds first artificial statellite and it was lunched by Soviet Union -
Bay of pigs
Castro and his army went to Havana and overthrew Gen Batista -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The wall was to stop East Germans from going to West Berlin -
Cuban Missile crisis
It was the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear conflict -
Disarmament Agreements
S1 The U.S. and the soviet Union agreeded to limit there # of Missiles. S2 It limited # of delivery vehicles -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The soviet Union invaded in support of the Afghan communist Government in the fight with Anticommunist Muslims -
Gorbachev's Reform
In 5 years it ended the could war -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Cold War was thawing across Eastern Europe and east Berlin's relations had changed with the west
