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Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift begun to take place June 24, 1948 till May 11, 1949. The USA and the UK helped aided west berlin due to the Marshall Plan. They provided Food, and Oil that they staring dropping in to Allied bases in West Berlin after soviets blocked railroads and the access to water. Analysis: The airlift showed the Soviet Union what the allies would not give up and abonded them.The allies came together and showed what kind of lengths they would go to to still suport them. -
Rosenburg Spy Case
A Husband and Wife were accussed of conspiracy; a conspiracy to commit "espoinage" for the soviet union. It was said they were sentaced to death for leaking vidal information on the atomib bomb. Analyis: Caused great concern in the United states and no one could tell if someone worked for the soviets. -
War Saw Pact
The Warsaw Pact involved Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, inwitch they all signed a treaty. (Simuliar to NATO). They all agreed to help aid one athother if they became vitimized by forgein aggersion. ALthough, it did not remain intact for long.In1991 it was expelled due to a Russian leader,
Analyis: The warsaw pact provided a sense of stabiliy between " conflicting forces". It help create a way of having no confronfrontaion betwee -
Bay of Pigs Invasion.
A group of exiles were trained with U.S Support and aid to overthrow Fidel Castro. Although, they did not succed and by the 20th many were captured or dead. A year later in december they were willing to realsethe captured for $53 million in food and medicne. Analyis: This invasion "sparked" the Cuban Missile crisis. Cuba was basically turing into a platform for Russia and there nucular missies. The agreement for them to remove there missles to was remove ours. -
Building the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a created barrier that divided East and West Berlin by the German Communist goverment in 1961.The East was merly communist, while West was democratic. They put up the wall trying to concel East Germans from fleeing to the west. Although, they entrapped the Western Belgium inside the wall. Analysis: This event was signifigant to the cold war because it divided the country. It was almost like a mini war within the cold war. -
U.S Sends Man to the moon
The Apollo 11 mission sent Neil Armstrong to the moon for the U.S to et ahead of the Soviets in the space race. Here is a video http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/firstmanmoon.htm Signifigance: It meant that the U.S "won" the space race : that had begun with sputkin's launch in 1957. -
1980 Olymic Hockey Game
The 1980's winter Olympics took place in Lake Placid, New York in The United States. Thirty-seven countries participated in all the sports venues as in the 1932 Olympics. During this Olympics the U.S beat the unbeatable Russians. This is one of the major upsets in sports history when Americans beat the USSR during the cold war.
Analyis: It was just so shocking to the world and was a huge upset -
