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the berlin air lift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. the blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. The allied response was a unbelievably massive air supply- flying night and day to feed the city. -
bay of pigs
On April 17, 1961, 1200 Cuban exiles launched what became a big invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba -
the failure
The failure at the Bay of Pigs cost the United States dearly. we lost 100 good men and got 1100 captured. Castro used the attack by the "Yankee imperialists" to stragthin his power in Cuba and he requested additional Soviet military aid. Eventually that aid included missiles, and the construction of missile bases in Cuba sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when the United States and the Soviet Union nearly came to blows over the issue. -
the cut off of cuba
the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba and then not long after cuba allied with the soviet union. -
the war began
on October 16, 1962, national security advisor mcgeorge bundy alerted president kennedy that a major international crisis was at hand. Two days earlier a United States military surveillance aircraft had taken hundreds of aerial photographs of Cuba. CIA analysts had deciphered in the pictures conclusive evidence that a Soviet missile base was under construction near san cristobal Cuba just 90 miles from the coast of Floordia -
the rejection
october 30, 1962
3:00 PM Shortly after his arrival in Havana U Thant and his aides meet with Fidel Castro cuban president Osvaldo Dorticós and Foreign Minister Raúl Roa. U Thant presents several verification proposals to ensure that the dismantling of the missiles is proceeding, including on-site inspection by a U.N. team, aerial inspection by U.N. reconnaissance planes, or verification by the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC. Castro rejects each of these proposals. -
the six day war
These nations watched closely during the Six Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, both of which pitted Israel backed by the United States against Egypt and Syria backed by the Soviet Union. this lead becuase of the war with the soivet unoin. -
the fall of the berlin wall
the fall of the berlin wall happened like as if it just was build torn down buy by standers and there was also a concerete there by pink floyd singing the song another brick in the wall.
