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The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin.
It allowed the Soviet Union to retain control over most of Eastern Europe. -
was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States.
Korea played the role of providing a reason and resources for the two Cold War enemies to fight each other. -
The formation of the Warsaw Pact was in some ways a response to the creation of NATO, although it did not occur until six years after the Western alliance came into being.
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Also known as the Second Indochina War, known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War.
The Vietnam War revolved around the simple belief held by America. -
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit.
The U.S.S.R.'s ability to launch a heavy satellite led U.S. citizens to believe that the U.S.S.R could launch inter-continental ballistic missiles. -
Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry, it is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear arms.
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Was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group.
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt by the United States to covertly overthrow the Castro regime. -
West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West.
The Berlin Wall was an attempt to increase relationships between the USA and the USSR. -
Was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, to some the most intense confrontation of the Cold War. -
Insurgent groups who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries,
As the cold war heated back up after the invasion of Afghanistan, both sides engaged in a series of tit-for-tat escalations of tensions. -
Was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s.
Gorbachev realized that he had inherited significant problems. Even as the USSR vied with the United States for global political and military leadership. -
It was built in 1961 during the Cold War and separated East and West Berlin.
The Cold War was the name given to the relationship between the USSR and USA after the end of WW2.
