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Berlin Airlift
Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in western Germany. -
Creation of Nato
Nato was created to keep peace in Europe. It was also to create freedom for members -
Korean War
American wanted to contain communism. And they didn’t want it to be a domino effect. Truman worried if Korea fell then so would Japan -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when U.S. forces withdrew in 1973 and Vietnam unified under Communist control two years later -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: -
Sputnik
The USSR released sputnik into space. Sputnik is the first satellite to orbit earth. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
Wall made of cinder blocks and barbed wire.
The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, -
Cuban Missile Crisis
An american spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969. Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the moon. American became the first country to reach the moon -
Destruction of Berlin Wall
East German officials opened the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, allowing travel from East to West Berlin. The following day, celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down. One of the ugliest and most infamous symbols of the Cold War was soon reduced to rubble that was quickly snatched up by souvenir hunters.