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berlin airlift
a militaryt opporation to bring in food and supplies into west berlin by airplane -
the berlin blockade
was an attempt by the soviet union to block france, great britan and the united states from traveling their sectors -
formation of the nato
an international organization composed of the US, Canada, Britain, and other european countires and and purposes collective security -
chinese civil war
was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
was a seceret policy paper issued by the national security council in april 1950 and was one pf the most significant documents of the cold war -
korean war
also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea -
President Truman fires General MacArthur
President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the U.S. forces in Korea. -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
launching of sputnik
the lauch of the soviet union space ship sputnik caused the united states space race -
cuban missile crisis
a crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.
