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Cold War Timeline
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United Nations
*International Peacekeeping Organization
*Arranged after WWII
*Attempts made by UN Helped prevent conflicts
*Each member had position in general assembly -
Korean War
*Americas forgotten war
*Profound impact upon East West relations and Americas foreign millitary policies
*More then 54,000 Americans died trying to stop the spread of Communism of South Korea -
Vietnam War
*Cold war millitary conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
*Followed the first indochina war between North Vietnam
*Supported by communist Allies -
Sputnik
*Launched by Soviet Union
*First official artifical satellite
*Worried U.S. because Soviet Union now had the power to launch nuclear missles at the U.S. -
U-2 Spy Plane
*A U-2B flown by Francis Gary Powers
*Shot down near Sverdlovsic in the USSR
*Shot down by a surface-to-air missle -
Berlin Wall
*Concrete / Barbed Wire Barrier
*Separated East and West Germany
*Division between communist and non communist Germany -
Bay Of Pigs
*organized by US (CIA)
*Approved by Dwight Eisenhower
*Unsuccessful attempt by US-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban government dictator Fidel Castro
*Invasion failed embarrasing Kennedy -
Cuban Missle Crisis
*Televised speech by John F. Kennedy
*Announced America would launch a "full retaliation response on the USSR if they didnt remove missles from cuba
*USSR removed their missles from cuba -
Salt I and Salt II
*SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
*Series of meetings between USSR and USA
*Talks about limiting the production of nuclear weapons -
First Man on The Moon
*Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
*They got to the moon on the Apollo 11
*Other astronauts aboard the Apollo 11 were Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Micheal Collins
