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Cold War Events
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Berlin Blockade / Airlift
Lasted over a year. -
Korean War
Was a war between North and South Korea,in which a United States of American fought for the South,and China fought for the North,which was also assiisted by the Soviet Union. -
Sputnik
The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball. -
Bay of Pigs
A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Was direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Vietnam War
War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam
