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The Cold War Timespan
There are no offical date of when the cold war started, -
The Berlin Airlift
US and British militaries, using civilian and military airliners, flew in food to starving people over the Berlin Wall. -
Forming of Warsaw Pact
The Russians formed an alliance with the Nazi occupied countries on Russian borders after World War 2. -
Soviets launch Sputnik into Space
The Russians launch the first spacecraft into space called Sputnik. -
U-2 incident
Tensions rose as a American spy plane was shot down in Soviet territory. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
A paramilitary group funded by the CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro and failed. -
Formation of the Berlin Wall
After WW2 Germany was divided into 4 zones. Berlin was also divided into 4 zones. This was a problem for Russia since Berlin was in the USSR zone but was still divided. France, Britan, and the U.S. combined their zones so Germany and Berlin were split in two. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States went to DEFCON 2 as the Soviets gave Cuba missiles and pointed them towards the USA. -
President Nixon resigns
President Nixon resigned from presidency. -
Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
More than eight years after troops intervened in Afghanistan to support the procommunist government, the troops began their withdraw. The event marked the beginning of the end of the long,bloody Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The world watches in amazement as the Soviet Union is broke apart into 15 separate countries.
