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Berlin Airlift
at the end of the second world war. Germany was split between different occupational provencees and berlin was in the soviet unions province. the soviets cut off the united states from sending supplies to their side of berlin so the united states used air drops of supplies to get food and water to them. -
NATO forms
National Atlantic Treaty Organization, an intermilitary organization created on the north atlantic treaty. -
Korean War Starts
the Korean war was a war between the north and the south in which the united states backed the south and cina backed the north along wit help from the soviet union -
US H-bomb
But after the Soviets successfully detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, President Harry S. Truman ordered the creation of a hydrogen bomb project. With the help of the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, Dr. Teller developed a model for the hydrogen bomb known as the Teller-Ulam design. -
Warsaw Pact
was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Soviets launch Sputnik
sputnik is the worlds first artificial satelite and was about the sizr of a beach ball -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a barrier that devided east and west Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban missle crisis
a 13 day confrontation between the united states and the soviet union over ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba -
SALT 1 agreement is signed
the salt agreement was known as the strategic arms limitation talks with the soviet union to limit the amount of nulear weapons a country could have -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
Mikhail gorbachev was the last soviet leader to rise to power before ending the sovet union -
Major arms control agreement is reached
the arms agreement was ment to avoid war and prove counter productive and national aims for future peace -
iron curtain crumbles
the iron curtain was ment to control the right half of europe while the united states controlled the right half of europe and the iron cunrtain fell apart under russia -
soviet union callapses
the soviet union collapsed when they decided to stop spending money on food for the people -
european union established
the european union is a politico-economic union of 28 member states that are primarily located in europe -
al qaeda atacked the united states
on september 11 al qeada flew 2 planes into the world trade centers and into the pentagon -
united states invaded iraq
the united states invaded iraq and was known as the start of the war on terrorism
