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Berlin Airlift
After the Berlin Wall was built the people in East Berlin were unable to receive necessary suplies. To help them other countries provided them with these suplies through the air, sometimes they would take people out of berlin -
The Korean War
Korea had been seperated into the north controlled by russia/china and the south controlled by the U.S. After the north invaded the south the U.S provided military support to the south after a few years an armstice was made and the borders remained relatively the same -
Open Skies Treaty
President Eisenhower proposed a plan were either side could fly over the other and gain info. The Soviets rejected this idea. -
The Vietnam War
Vietnam had been seperated into Communist North VIetnam and democratic South VIetnam. North VIetnam began to invade the south, who had the support of the U.S. After the U.S removed their support the south was defeated -
Fidel Takes Control
Before 1959 Cuba was a dictatorship. In 1959 a group of rebels led by Fidel Castro overthrew the dictator and made the government Communist -
U-2 Event
The Soviets shot down a U.S U-2 plane and made the flight an aggressive act. The U.S didn't beleive that the pilots mission was to collect Soviet information. -
Bay of Pigs
The U.S trained troops in Cuba to eliminate Castro. They failed to kill them and it's now a major embaressment for the U.S -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Soviet Union had nuclear missle on Cuba and the U.S felt threatened. After negotiations the missles were removed from Cuba. This was the closest the world had come to nuclear war. -
SALT
This was agrrement made between the Soivet leaders and president Nixon. SALT limited the number of nuclear warheads either side could have. -
Destuction of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall had trapped many East Germans and isolated them from the rest of Germany. In 1989 the wall was torn down, this became an important symbol of the Cold War
