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beginning of the cold war
When the war ended russia and the allies split berlin in to the east and the west and this stared the tensions between russia and the u.s. russia ran the east with communism but america used a democracy in the west. -
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beginning of the cold war
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berlin airlift and blockade
u.s flew more than 2 millon tons of supplies to west berlin . berlin was blockadeed by russia witch ment no one could get in or out.
the blockade ended in may of 1949. -
NATO
NATO is the north american treaty organisation. a organisation to help protect the people of north america and others. NATO was made in 1949 and is still used today to protect other countries in need. -
Koren war
when north korea became communist and tried to invade south korea. Then the u.s sent troops to stop communism and to aid south korea. -
vietnam war
when vietnam became communist america tried to contain it and protect south vietnam frome becoming communist. In the end, the Communists won the war, and Vietnam was reunified under a Communist government. -
sputnick
the soviet union launched sputnick which was the first artifical made satellite. this made russia ahead in the space race and that they could use the power to launch a nucleur missle at the u.s -
u-2 spy plane
On May 1, 1960, a U-2B flown by Francis Gary Powers was shot down near Sverdlovsk in the USSR by a Soviet surface-to-air missile. This incident occurred only days before President Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev met at a conference in Paris. -
berlin wall
the berlin wall is the wall that seperates west and east berlin. built in 1961. the wall was torned down in 1990 when u.s and russia aggred on that the capital should be united. -
bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba and kill fidel castro.it took 3 days for cuba to find and stop the cia. -
cuban missle crisis
when russia became allies with cuba it gave russia the abbilite to p[ut nucluer missles in range of america but russia never firerd a nucluer missle at the u.s. -
1st man on the moon
when russia sent sputnick the u.s was falling behind in the space race so they made the NASA program. NASA put the first man on the moon in 1969. -
salt 1 salt 2
in 1969 SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Although SALT II resulted in an agreement in 1979, the United States chose not to ratify the treaty in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which took place later that year. The US eventually withdrew from SALT II in 1986
