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Cold War Events
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Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
- USSR attempt to cut West Berlin from the allies.
- First example of the U.S. using the Truman Doctrine to help fight communism.
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Korean War
- The korean war was a war between South and North Korea. The U.S. was on the south's side, while the Soviet Union and China were on the North's side.
- This war helped caused tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union about communism.
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Vietnam War
- This was a war between South and North Vietnam, the United States got involved, and fought with France and South Vietnam.
- Cuased more conflicts about communism between U.S. and the Soviet Union dueing the Cold War.
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Sputnik
- It was a small sattellite put in space by the Soviet Union during the space race.
- Was a wake-up call to the U.S. that they needed to step up their game in the space race.
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Bay of Pigs
- It was the U.S. invading Cuba, but the U.S. surrendered in less thn 24 hours because they were extremely outnumbered.
- The U.S. starts to go against the policy of containment by trying uncommunize Cuba, rather than not letting it go anywhere else from Cuba.
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Creation of the Berlin Wall
- The wall of was built to keep people from Eastern Germany from escaping to the democratic west.
- It shows just how bad communism actually was, and why the U.S. wanted to stop the spread of it.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
- It was a 13 day conflict between the U.S. and The Soviet union about nuclear-armed missiles that were in Cuba just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
- It caused fear in Americans that the Soviet Union would try to launch thtese missiles at the U.S.
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in order to take it over and take it into their own communist government.
- It shows how the Soviet Union was power driven and it shows why containment was necessary.
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Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/ Glasnot)
- Program led by Gorbachev that swept communist governments in Europe from power.
- It was significant because it contributed to the end of the Cold War.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
- The spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced that their relation with the West was going to change.
- Significant because it ended the cold war.