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Cold War Timeline

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  • Berlin Blockade and Airlift

    Berlin Blockade and Airlift
    The Berlin Blockade and Airlift was one of the first major international crisis of the Cold War. It was an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War, Korea had been split into two sovereign states.

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    The Space Race is the 20th-century competition between the two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US). Soviets started with the lead with Sputnik 1, however when the U.S. kept competing it actually brought them together and created the International Space Station.

  • U-2 Reconnaissance Plane

    U-2 Reconnaissance Plane
    The US's CIA had a plane trying to spy on the Soviets and the Soviets shot it down and this lead to an embarrassing conference between US and Soviets. (Embarrassing for the US)

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. The U.S. sought the elimination of Castro for his insistence on communism.

  • Reagan Visits the Wall

    Reagan Visits the Wall
    Reagan visited the Berlin Wall, this showed continued commitment to the people of West Berlin.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

    Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
    The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. (November, 1969)

  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviets Invade Afghanistan
    The US and the Soviets each back a different side and this led to the US boycotting the 1980 Olympics.

  • Reunited Germany

    Reunited Germany
    East and west Germany reunited, East Germany was no longer Communist, and this was evidence that the War Saw Pact's days were numbered.