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This cirsts started when the soviet forces blockaded railroads, roads, and water access in order to allied-control parts of Berlin the US and UK decided to send food and fuel by airlifting food and the fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in western Germany, the soviet forces lifted the blockade on may 12th because of economic issues in Easter Berlin -
NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe it was formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty -
The North Korean Communist army invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea -
The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a collective security alliance between the United States. it provided for a unified military command and the systematic ability to strengthen the Soviet hold over the other participating countries -
It was fought between north Vietnam backed up by the soviet, china, and south Vietnam and supported by the US, The president Nixon signs the Paris peace accords, ending direct US involvement in the Vietnam War -
Sputnik was a spacecraft launched on October 4th the period it was launched was a period of fear and anxiety in western nation the launch of the sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions the us were scared to launch it they thought it was powerless against annihilation from space it end up burning up in the atmosphere on January 4th 1958 -
It was built during the cold war they built it to prevent there people from escaping soviet union control -
The Cuban missile crisis was tension between the US and the soviet union, it started from the soviet union installing nuclear missiles in Cuba and the us was not going to let that happen and they started to have tension and the soviet union finally agreed to remove the missiles after 13 days -
America's intention to go to the moon was more about showing up terrestrial enemies than exploring an extraterrestrial world, but it became such a big achievement the first person to land on the moon was astronaut Neil Armstrong -
The wall fell down on November 9th from the pressure of the people from Eastern Europe to open the border