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Top Events
1- Berlin Blockade
2- "able Archer" Military Exercise
3- Vietnam War
5- Suez Canal Crisis
6- Soviet War in Afghanistan
7- Yom Kippur War
8- Soviets Downing Korean Air Lines Flight 007
9- Cuban Missile Crisis
10- Space Race
11- U-2 Incident -
Berlin Blockade
International crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, to force the western allied powers to abandon their post war- WW2 jurisdictions in west berlin -
Korean War
The united kingdom and the U.S supported south korea while communist china and the soviet union supported north korea. On june 25 north korea invaded the south leading to the death of 3 million people. The fighting ended in July with north korea still divided into two states. -
Space Race
The united states and the soviet union fought to prove that they had better and superior technologies. More specifically they pursue dominance of space flight technologies. -
Vietnam War
The vietnam war was a conflict that pitted the communist government of north viena against south vienna and its principal ally the U.S and the soviet union. More than 3 million people were killed in the war. Communists forces ended the war by seizing control of the south vietnam in 1975. -
Suez Canal Crisis
The crisis began when israel armed forces pushed into egypt toward the suez canal, a valuable waterway that controlled 2/3 of oil used by Europe. Britain along with france invaded egypt to recover control of the canal Resulted in 3,200 deaths -
U-2 Incident
The soviet union air space shot down a U.S spy plane, this caused the soviet leader to walk out of the first day of the paris peace conference -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the crisis, leaders of the U.S and the soviet union engaged in a tense, 13 days political and military standoff, over the installations of the nuclear armed soviet missiles on cuba. The U.S agreed to the soviet leader to remove the cuban missiles in exchange from the U.S promising not to invade cuba. -
Yom Kippur War
The war which eventually drew that U.S and the soviet union into indirect confrontation in defense of their respective allies, was launched with the diplomatic aim of persuading. A total of 2,656 israeli soldiers were killed -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
The war between the muslim guerillas and afghanistan was intercept by the soviet to support the afghan communist government. Over 15,000 people died during this war. -
Soviets Downing Korean Air Lines Flight 007
A plane was shot down by the Soviet Union because there was a navigation error and flew through soviet airspace. All 269 people on board were killed. -
" Able Archer " Military Exercise
Nato had conducted a war game that demonstrated and realistically modeled a nuclear attack on the soviet union , which led to tensions increasing.