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• 1945: World War II Ends and the Cold War Begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lREvUjWV6GI
this video is significant because its talking about the cold war and this video brings up everything you need to know about the cold war. -
• March 1946: Winston Churchill delivers the Iron Curtain Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmkFB2paEC8
this is significant because its one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe -
• May 1948: US and Britain break the Soviet blockade of West Berlin with the Berlin Airlift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo
this video is significant because the negotiations between the Soviets, Americans, and British broke down.The United States response came just two days after the Soviets began their blockade. A massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin was undertaken in what was to become one of the greatest logistical efforts in history. -
• 1950 to 1953: Korean War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGyRgYJKEY
this is significant because the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Finally, in July 1953, the Korean War came to an end. -
• 1954: Vietnam War Begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9GWdT2pEQ
this is significant because 1954 to 1959 phase of the Vietnam War was the era of the two nations Coming after The period ended with major negotiations, but formal discussions had or was training Vietnamese forces, and the French disassociation began. -
1955: Warsaw Pact is formed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVz1ju4sImk
this video is significant because the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
•1961: US is defeated and humiliated at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH6FQhlZn6k
this video is significant because the invasion was a major failure for US foreign policy. -
•August 1961: Berlin Wall is Built
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRw2JjH2iSk
this is significant because during the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. -
•October 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwdowXDczbg
this is significant because It happened when the Soviet Union (USSR) began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962. Together with the Berlin Blockade, this crisis is seen as one of the most important confrontations of the Cold War. -
•1974: Vietnam War is over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2eKaxU-8kA
this is significant because the Vietnam War began in the decade before, but the conflict, and especially U.S. involvement, escalated in the 1960s. -
•November 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRw2JjH2iSk
this video is significant because 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. -
•October 1990: Germany is reunited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvsUE2BP7M
this is significant because With the gradual waning of Soviet power in the late 1980s the Communist Party in East Germany began to lose its grip on power. -
• December 1991: Soviet Union Collapses (Establishment of the Russian Federation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vxzsd9A4F4
this video is significant because once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. -
• 1949: North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O37yJBFRrfg
this is significant because the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.