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Vietnam War
A bloody war that killed 60,000 Americans and 2 million Vitnamese people that many Americans thought was unecesarry -
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Cold War Events
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Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
1.USSR attempts to cut west Berlin from the Allies
2.First example of the US using the Truman Doctrine to help fight communism -
Korean War
The First battle of the cold war between North and South Korea and almost made another World War getting Japan and almost USSR. -
Sputnik
The first ever sattelite launched by the USSR ending the competion between them and the US. It was significant becasue it made them a little bit farther Technologically advanced than us. -
Bay of Pigs
A failed military invasion in Cuba undertake by CIA sponsered paramilitary group Brigaide 2506. It was important to the war by making the Cuban Missle Crisis possible -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
It made a wall that split Berlin in two pieces. It seperated the US and the USSR making the USSR mad becuase the US had the nice part of berlin. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The U.s and the USSR's 13 day standoff over putting missles in cuba which was only 90 miles from US shores. It brought the US and USSR closer to actually having a war -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
It was a long war that had to do with communism. It contributed to the cold war alot and made it where communism wasing starting to spread. -
Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/Glasnost)
was a political movement by the Soviets that meant they were open to resturucting. It helped by kind of slowing down the cold war. -
Fall Of Berlin Wall
As the cold war came to an end the governer of Berlin decided to have the wall torn down. It really ended the cold war bringing them back together.
