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Berlin Airlift
When Britain and Soviet military forces divided between Germany the Berlin Wall was formed. When the First Berlin Crisis arrosed by setting blockades on rail, roads, and water access, United stated began to airlift food, and supplys acrosed the blockades. Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to the west Berlin on May 12, 1949. -
NATO
The United States and its allies formed Nato. This is where any memebers of NATO agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO is still taking part in this day. -
Korean War Starts
Containment was a big problem with Korea, so When the united States attempted to stop the spread of communism, it began conflict in Korea. When 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean army raced across the 38th paralle, the Korean War began. -
US-H Bomb
In 1952 Unite States tested the first H Bomb. This Gave the United States advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. The hydrogen bomb weapon was almost 1,000 times more powerful than any other nuclear devices.Oppenheimer helped develope the hydrogen bomb. -
Warsaw Pack
Satellite Ntions and the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pack. It established as a balance of power. -
Soviet Lanch Sputnik
The world's first satellite was launch. It took 98 minutes to orbit the Earth. This Event lead to the creation of NASA in American. Alo for the new creations and advances in political, military, technological, and scientific developments.This marked the start if the Space age and the new Space race. -
Berlin Wall
This divided Berlin from Germany. It was held in place from 1961-1989. This cut of everything by land from West berlin to east germany. Most people believe that the Berlin Wall was the defining symbol of the Cold War. Berlin and Germany had a detente relation with eavh country. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. The was a 13 day confrontation. MAny people belived due to the crisis they would face a world nucler war. The soviet leader offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. to promise not to invade Cuba. The U.S. president agreed adn removed missiles from Turkey. -
SALT I agreement is signed
These were agreements to attempts to control nuclear weapons ever where. The agreement signed addressed two major issues. 1,limited the number of missiles. Each country could have to two. 2, The number of missiles were frozen at existing levels. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
At first Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party. He was then the eighth leader of the Soviet Union and the last. He helped end he cold war and promoting peaceful international relations. He also tried a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party called Perestroika. -
Major arm control agreement is reached
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed between the Soviet Union and United States. This would allow all missiles with in a certain distance to be distroyed. -
Iron Curtain begans to crumble in Europe
The Iron Curtain fell due to the Pan-European Picnic. Over 600 Germans fled into Austria. -
soviet union collapses
the Belavezha Accords was sighned, which declared the Soviet Union dissolved and established the Commonwealth of Independent States. Mikhail Gorbachev dedicated reforme. -
european union established
A union of 28 member states, located in Europe. It was in placed by the Maastricht Treaty. The American initiative to aid Western Europe to help rebuild and to give economic support under the Marshall Plan. -
Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.
This is the famous terrorist 9/11 attack. It was a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. Osama bin Ladenadmitted his organization was responsible in 2004. Al-Qaeda held many attacks throughout history. -
United States invaded Iraq
When the united States invaded Iraq, it would start a 9 year wr with them. A reason for hte invations was the susspecious link between Saddam Hussein's government and terrorist organizations, in particular Al-Qaeda.
