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Cold War Events
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Vietnam War
- claimed Vietnam as a colony
- It was a proxy war
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Berlin Blockade/Airlift
- USSR attempts to cut West Berlin from the alllies. 2.First example of the US using the Truman Doctrine to help fight communism.
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Korean War
- It began when the North Korean communist army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded non- communist South Korea.
- It represented an important shift in US Cold War policy.
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Sputnik
- Thhe world's first artificial satellite.
- intensified the arms race and raised cold war tensions
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Bay of Pigs
- invansions in attempts to take over the communist government of Fidel Castro
- The failure at Bay of Pigs cost the US dearly.
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Creation of the Berlin Wall
- eenclosed West Berlin and seperated families and kept people from their jobs
- seperated East and West Berlin
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Cuban Missle Crisis
- American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
- one of the few times the rules of the Cold War were nearly forgotten
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Soviet Invasion of Afgahnistan
- Afgahn communist government with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas
- the only time the Sovieet Union invaded a country outside the Eastern block
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Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/Glasnost)
- political movement for reformation within the Communist Party
- ended nuclear rivalry with the US, slowed arms race
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
- communist party announced change in relationship with West Berlin
- the Cold War began to die down