Cold War

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  • Cold War

    A cold war begins between the United state and the Soviet Union

  • policy of containment

    Containment is a military strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism. The policy of containment was used to justify American involvement in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

  • Korean War

    The Korean War begins when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. This war lasted for almost 3 years. It ended when an armistice was signed on July 27, 1953.

  • Vietnam War

    was a long costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam an d its principal ally ( the United States).

  • Launch of Sputnik

    The Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite called Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union wanted to beat the U.S. into space.

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. The crisis ended on October 28, 1962

  • SALT 1& SALT 2

    Treaties between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that curtailed the build up of nuclear weapons. The second treaty was signed in 1979

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    Troops from the Soviet Union went into Afghanistan and demanded total control. This invasion lasted about 9 years and ended on February 15th 1989

  • creation of the Berlin wall

    as the cold war was began to thaw across eastern Europe. the communist government of German Democratic Republic began to build a bared wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. the main purpose of the wall was to keep the Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state.

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    The head of the East German Communist party allowed citizens of the GDR to cross the Berlin Wall whenever they pleased.

  • fall of communism in the USSR

    the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.