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Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. The 193.30 km long canal is a popular trade route between Europe and Asia.
But this canal was closed by 8 years after war broke out between Egypt and Israel. As a result, ships were forced to divert around the tip of Africa. End: 11-17-1869 -
Red Scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings. End: 1920 -
Truman Doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Also the doctrine originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. End: June 30 1948 -
Marshall Plan
For the United States, the Marshall Plan provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in Western Europe.
Congress's approval of the Marshall Plan signaled an extension of the bipartisanship of World War II into the postwar years End: December 1951 -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. Without firing a shot, the Americans foiled the Soviet plan to hold West Berlin hostage, while simultaneously demonstrating to the world the “Yankee ingenuity” for which their nation was famous.
was leader by Joseph Stalin.
Also, the Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors. End: 05-12-1949 -
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations.
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U-2 Incident
The original consensus about the cause of the U-2 incident was that the spy plane had been shot down by one of a salvo of 14 Soviet SA-2 missiles. This story was originated by Oleg Penkovsky, a GRU agent who spied for MI6. End: same day, I think. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Which proceeded to openly proclaim its intention to adopt socialism and pursue closer ties with the Soviet Union. End: 04-20-1961 -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It encircled West Berlin, separating it from East German territory. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic.
The story of the Berlin Wall is one of division and repression, but also of the yearning for freedom. End: 11-09-1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis [of 1962] in Cuba, the Caribbean Crisis in Russia, or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba. End: 10-29-1962 -
Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. End: 05-11-1995 -
Perestroika and Glasnost
One of the long-term consequences of glasnost was the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Glasnost lead to dissent, and leaders such as Boris Yeltsin took advantage of this dissent to crush the Soviet system from within. The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. End: 1991