Cold War events

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  • the Greek civil war

    Greece 1946 – 1949
    The civil war resulted from a highly polarized struggle between left and right ideologies
    Fought between the Greek government army (supported by the United Kingdom and the United States) and the Democratic Army of Greece.
    The kingdom of Greece won the war. The defeat of the Communist revolt in Greece, in which more than 50 000 people died and 1,000,000 people were temporarily relocated during the war., marked the end of the spread of Soviet influence in Europe.

  • The Berlin Blockade

    It was an attempt in Berlin, 23rd June 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin.
    The Soviet Union won. Despite dire shortages of fuel and electricity, the airlift kept life going in West Berlin for 11 months, until on May 12, 1949, the Soviets lifted the blockade.
    As a result, the people of West Berlin were left without food, clothing, or medical supplies.

  • The Nuclear Race (MAD)

    Between the United States, the Soviet Union. While American experts had predicted that the Soviet Union would not have nuclear weapons until the mid-1950s, the first Soviet bomb was detonated on August 29, 1949, shocking the entire world.
    Both countries continued building more and bigger bombs.
    This lasted until the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Act in July 1991.

  • the Vietnam war

    • Vietnam (1954–1975)
    • America belived that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia.
    • North Vietnam (communists) vs. government of South Vietnam with the US
    • The end: On April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces.
    • North Vietnam won the war.
    • Consequences: 2 million Vietnamese civilians, killed, North Vietnam lost 70% of its industrial and transportation infrastructure.