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Start of Cold War
The end of World War 2 caused a huge backlash between the two world superpowers the United Satates and The Soviet Union. -
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Major Events of Cold War
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The Berlin Airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. the blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. -
NATO ratified
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -
Forming the Warsw Pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
The Vietnam War
The cold war was a fight between the United States and the USSR over the world's resources. South Vietnam was an allie of the US and North Vietnam was an allie of the USSR. -
Start of Space Race Launch of Sputnik
The USSR sent a sattelite into space. Theis sattelite was named Sputnik and the is what started the space race. -
John F. Kennedy elected president
President John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States Of America. -
The Creation of The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island. -
Apollo 11 Lands on Moon
Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to ever walk on the moon. We win the space race. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
As Communism began to falter in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in 1988 and 1989, new exodus points were opened to East Germans who wanted to flee to the West. -
Cold War Ends
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declaration acknowledged the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.
