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Korean War
June 25, 1950 , The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldier from the North Korean people's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the soviet packed democratic peoples republic of Korea to the north and the pro-western republic Korea to the south. (this invasion of the cold war) -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States -
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Launch of Sputnik
the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I.
The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. -
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Bay of Pigs invasion
On April 17, 1961, a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles attacked Cuba in Bay of Pigs invasion. The poorly equipped forces landed at the site with no protective cover. Not only did the Bay of Pigs invasion fail, it probably strengthened castor's position in Cuba. -
Creation of Berlin Wall
the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic or east germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
On October 14, Kennedy's efforts contain communism were severely threatened. Nikita Khrushchev indicated that he would remove U.S. missiles in Turkey and Italy If the Soviets removed their missiles in Cuba. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy and Khrushchev stood on the edge of a nuclear war and then slowly back away. After the Cuban Missile Crisis the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union signed the nuclear test ban treaty. -
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SALT I and SALT II
Talks between U.S.S.R. and the U.S.. November of 1969 Nixon met with secretary of soviets. Negotiations lasted until January 1972. Negotiation of SALT I was finalized May 26th of 1972. Late 1972 negotiations began on SALT II. This went on for seven years. The treaty was signed June 18tyh 1979. SALT II was sent to the senate to be ratified, but due to tensions between the two countries, Carter pushed the treaty aside. -
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
the soviet afghanistan war was fought between afghanistan rebels called the mujahideen and the soviet supported afghanistan goverment the united states supported the afghanistan rebels in order to try and overthrow the communist goverment and prevent the spread of communism -
Fall of Communism in the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika. In March 1985, a longtime Communist Party politician named Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the leadership of the USSR He inherited a stagnant economy and a political structure that made reform all but impossible. -
Fall of the Berlin War
for 30 years the berlin wall was the defining symbol of the cold war it stood untill november 9 1989 when the head of the east german communist party announced that the GDR could cross the border whenever the pleased.that night crowds swarmed the wall , some crossed freely into the west berlin others had hammers and picks and begun to chip the wall away.