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The Arms Race
The arms race took place when France and Russia challenged the naval superiority of Britain Germany’s attempt to surpass Britain’s fleet spilled over into World War I while tensions after the war between the United States, Britain and Japan resulted in the first major arms limitation treaty at the Washington Conference. The buildup of arms was also a characteristic of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, though the development of nuclear weapons changed the stakes for the par -
Berlin Airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city, because there was no other way to get them the stuff they need. It ended May 12, 1949 -
Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army went across the 38th parallel. The boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s,Republic of Korea to the north and Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism. It ended Jul 27, 1953 -
The Space Race
The Cold War, this battle pitted the world’s two great powers the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union against each other. Beginning in the late 1950s, space would became another dramatic arena for competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology by going to space. Ended in 1975 when they were both up their together helping each other -
Vietnam War
Conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people including over 58,000 Americans were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans ended on Apr 30, 1975 -
Berlin Wall
The Communist government of the German began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep Western fascists from entering East Germany but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, -
Cuban Missile Crisis
leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. His decision to enact a naval blockade around Cubadisaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. Ended Oct 28, 1962 -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The United States rejoiced as its formidable enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II.
