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Creation of the Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. -
Formation of N.A.T.O
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Signing of Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Bay of Pigs Invation
Around 1,200 exiles, armed by Americans landed on the Bay of Pigs. The hope was that the exile force would get the Cubans to rise up and overthrow Castro’s government. The plan immediately fell apart. -
U-2 spy incedent
The USSR shot down a U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot. Confronted with the evidence of his nation’s espionage, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. -
Creation of the Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a wall that seperated Berlin, the wall was put up over night and seperated families. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
First BlackBird test flight
Before it was cracking the skies over Russia at mach 3.3, the Cold War spy plane had to prove itself during a series of test flights. The first of those took place on December 22, 1964. -
First men on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
This event reunited familys and friends that had been seperated by it when the wallwas constructed.
