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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
International crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the West Allied Powers to abandon thier post world war II jurisdiction in West Berlin. This wasa huge turning point in WWII. -
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Korean War
War also known as Korean Conflict, fought in the early 1950's between United Nations. Began when North Korea attacked South Korea. -
Space Race
This is where the U.S. and Soviets had an intense rivalry about space and who could go farthest first.Soviets started in the lead, however through competing it brought them together to create the international space station. -
U-2 Reconnaissance Plane
A U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot down over the USSR. President Eisenhower was forced to admit to flying spy missions over several years. -
Bay of Pigs
This is where the U.S. tried to invade Cuba and failed terribly. An unsuccessful invasion on Cuba by Cuban exiles supported by the U.S. government. -
Raegan visits the wall
In one of the most famous cold war speeches, Ronald Raegan challenges Soviet leader Michael Gorbochev to tear down the Berlin wall - two years later East and West Germans broke down the imfamous barrier between East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
thirteen day confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Soviet ballisitc missiles deplayed at Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full scale nuclear war. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that were aimed at the curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. This was one of the steps that slowed the arms race, -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control. This event began a brutal decade long attempt to subdue Afghanistan civil war and maintane friendly socialist government on its border. -
German Reunification
The process in which the Gernan Democracy party joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the united nation of Germany. East Germany was no longer communist and this was evidence that the Warsaw Pacts days were numbered,
