cold war timeline

By sherwin clements
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    cold war events

  • berlin blockade/ airlift

    berlin blockade/ airlift
    1. The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany.
    2. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.

  • koreasn war

    koreasn war
    1. Korean War definition. A war, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. 2.United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.

  • vietnam war

    vietnam war
    1. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam. 2 .conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous.

  • sputnik

    sputnik
    1. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses.
    2. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit.

  • bay of pigs

    bay of pigs
    1. The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506.
    2. An armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba.

  • cuban missile crisis

    cuban missile crisis
    1. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
    2. A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.

  • soviet invasion of afghanistan

    soviet invasion of afghanistan
    1. The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years. Insurgent groups who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan
    2. The Afghan war was a great drain on the Soviet military, and it cost the Soviet regime significant international prestige.

  • gorbachev's reforms (perestroika/glasnost)

    gorbachev's reforms (perestroika/glasnost)
    1. It was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s,
    2. it was widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost.

  • creation of berlin wall

    creation of berlin wall
    1. The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe
    2. The spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.

  • fall of the berlin wall

    fall of the berlin wall
    1. Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
    2. It was built by the government of what was then East Germany to keep East Berliners from defecting to the West.