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Berlin airlift
The Berlin airlift was the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. So then The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin so they used aircrews from the U.S. and allies.By the spring of 1949, the airlift was clearly succeeding. -
Korean War
was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and by agreement with the United States they occupied Korea north of the 38th parallel. U.S. forces subsequently occupied the south and Japan surrendered -
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Sputnik 1
The Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program. It was a key Cold War event that began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. -
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U-2 incident
U-2 incident happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis was a 13-day (October 14–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold WarThe North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against forces from France and then America, and later against South Vietnam.. -
Soviet Afghan War
The Soviets led the Afghans because they were communist and had good resources. The rebels were backed by the U.S. to combat the Soviets without having to declare war on them.The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began on December 24, 1979 under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. -
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Berlin Wall Falls
The falling of the wall symbolized the end of the cold war and the end of the Iron Curtains dominance. This was important to the Cold War because it signaled the end. After this, the Soviet Union Collapsed and then the U.S. could finally exist in peace without fear. -
Perestroika and Glasnost
When Mikhail S. Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Within five years, Gorbachev's revolutionary program swept communist governments throughout Eastern Europe from power and brought an end to the Cold War (1945-91). -
Non-Proliferation Treaty
NPT is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology. Countries started signing it in 1968 and it came into effect in 1970. On 11 May 1995, the Treaty was extended indefinitely. A total of 190 parties have joined the Treaty, with five states being recognized as nuclear-weapon states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council).
