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Cold War Events
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Berlin Blockade Airlift
1.Ussr attempts to cut w. Berlin from the aillies
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Korean War
1.North Korea crosses the 38th parallel, invading South Korea.
2.The North Korea gave the U.S. reason to increase it's military expenditure four-fold. Under Truman military expenditure increased rapidly for the so called military industrial complex that existed throughout the cold war. -
Vietnam War
1.Vietnam has a long history of being ruled by foreign powers, and this led many Vietnamese to see the United States’ involvement in their country as neo-colonialism.
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Sputnik
1.Sputnik was launched to correspond with the International Geophysical Year, a solar period that the International Council of Scientific Unions declared would be ideal for the launching of artificial satellites to study Earth and the solar system.
2.The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. -
Bay of Pigs
1.invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
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Creation of the Berlin Wall
- West Berlin from East Berlin by stringing barbed wire and posting sentries. In the days and weeks to come, construction of a concrete block wall began, complete with sentry towers and minefields around it.
- the Berlin Wall became a physical symbol of the Cold War. The stark division between communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin served as the subject for numerous editorials and speeches in the United States
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Cuban Missle Crisis
1.Cuban Missle Crisis leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military.
2.It is significant because it almost officially made the cold war a hot war between the Soviet Union and the US. -
Soviet invasion of afghanistan
1.The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was a costly and, ultimately, pointless war. Historical hindsight has made this evident. However, exactly why the Red Army wound up in direct military conflict, embroiled in a bitter and complicated civil war—some 3,000 kilometres away from Moscow—is a point of historiographical uncertainty. -
Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/Glasnost
