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It's the Cold War
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The Cold War begins
This is a time of tension between the USA and the USSR, although there was no fighting -
Iron Curtain.
The British Prime Minister at the time, gave speeches about the so-called "Iron Curtain." These speeches supposedly started the Cold War -
The Red Scare
People were scared of communism for a period of time called The Red Scare that lasted about ten years -
The Berlin Airfift
The Berlin Airlift was created in West Berlin to fly in much needed supplies for East Berlin. The rulers of East Berlin had cut off all ways in and out of the Eastern Bloc, except the sky -
The Alliance of NATO
The alliance called NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was created in 1949 -
The Fleeing East Germans
Some East Germans did not want to be communist and 300,000 East Gemans fled to West Berlin and eventually all of West Germany. -
The Alliance The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was created in1955. -
The End of the Red Scare
The Red Scare has ended -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall stood 28 years and was erected in 1961. The wall split the city of Berlin in two. The East Germans referred to it as the Anti-Facsist Protection Rampart while the West Germans referred to it as the Wall of Shame. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The USSR put nuclear missiles in Cuba and there was a 13 day stand-off between the USA and the USSR. In the end, the USSR took the missiles out of Cuba -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power in the USSR and begins to ease the communist policies -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was destroyed by eager West Germans -
Germany's Reunification
Germany is reunified -
The USSR falls
In 1991, the USSR fell and split into 15 seperate democratic countries: Armenia, Azerjaban, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
