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Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Heavily involved in the Cuban missile crisis. -
Containment policy
containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
Nuclear arms race
The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. -
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Cold War
Was one of the longest standing wars without any actual confrontation occurring, the war itself was intense as different methods of espionage where used to gather information. it also brought about many other significant events which allowed humanity to reach places never even considered before, example being ouster space. -
Korean War
Conflict between the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least least 2.5 million people lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when the North, supplied and advised by soviet union began an invasion on the South. in response to this the Americans as well as the UN stepped in to defend South Korea against the force from the North -
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Vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. -
Space Race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It is an important part of history due to the sheer -
The U2 Spy plane
crisis erupted in May 1960 when the (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. evidence of his nation’s espionage was provided, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years.The U-2 spy plane incident raised tensions between the U.S. and the Soviets during the Cold War. -
Berlin War
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East German fled to the democratic West . In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall the totally encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight, on 13 August 1961 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides. -
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Soviet Afghanistan War
After World War II, as both the United States and the Soviet Union competed for global power, Afghanistan increasingly turned to the Soviet Union for support after the United States established military ties with Pakistan in 1954, according to an October 2001 report from Human Rights Watch.
The Soviets in return used the strategic location of Afghanistan, at the juncture of Asia and the Middle East, to counter the U.S. alliance with Pakistan and the surrounding Persian Gulf states.
