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The Berlin Airlift
This started because we were trying to help Berlin. Then Stalin make a wall preventing the U.S. to help. So we made a plane specifically made to fly over Berlin to drop supplies in creates to help the people of Berlin which ended in may 1949 due to Stalin removing the blockade -
Soviets detonate an atomic bomb
This was the first atomic bomb that was detonated at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. Stalin got information because of a spy that worked on the Manhattan Project -
China falls to the Communist
Because of the invasion from Japan caused for a rebellion and the Chinese Communist Party was created and was McLean by Mao Zedong. People were fine with this because he promised for better living conditions for peasants. -
Korean War
The Korean War started because North Korea wanted to take over South Korea to unifiy but under the North Korea communism. And Stalin was the reason for this war. -
Rosenbergs executed
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted to be spies for the Soviet Union and had a lot of valuable secrets that the US had. -
McCarthy hearings
This was a televised hearing to investigate all of the accusations from McCarthy and the army. The reason this started was because McCarthy was accusing people to get a leverage to win a political voting. And this ended in June 1954 -
Geneva Accords signed
The reason for this was to negotiate a settlement to end conflict in indochina and to reunify Vietnam. The affect this had was that Vietnam was split into a communist side and capitalist side. The US, Soviet Union, France, the UK, China, and the Viet Minh -
Sputnik orbit
The launch of the Sputnik was the leading start of the “space race” during the Cold War. And it was made because of the international geophysical year. And was created by the Soviet Union. -
NASA created
NASA was created because of the launch of the Sputnik. President Eisenhower founded nasa and it is in Washington D.C. -
Fidel Castro seizes power
Fidel Castro was a revolutionary and war hero so he had a lot of influence. And because if this he was easily able to rise to power and he wanted the standards if Cubans to be higher so he became the prime minister of Cuba. But his ideology was towards communism which is not good.