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It was the first major international crisis of the cold war. The soviet union blocked the western allies' railways.
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When the united states, Canada, and several European countries provided extra protection against the soviet union.
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The Korean war was a war between north and south Korea.
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The warsaw pact was created in reaction to the interrogation of West Germany into NATO.
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Military conflict between South Vietnam(supported by the U.S.) and communist North Vietnam.
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The first artificial earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low orbit. Its batteries died and took two months before falling back into the atmosphere.
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The wall was built to keep the country's people in.
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The Cuban missile crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the united states and soviet union it was started over the discovery of the Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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The first time humans set foot on the moon.
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The Berlin Wall fell because of political changes in eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the east german government to loosen some regulations.