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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. -
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Korean War
The Korean War started when North Korea invaded South Korea. It was also the first hot war in the cold war. North Korea was support by the USSR and South Korea was supported by the USA. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Launch Of Sputnik I
Oct. 4th the Soviet Union launched successfully launched Sputnik I. Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite. Was the size of a Beach ball. -
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Bay of Pigs invasion
a failed military invasion of cuba under taken by the cia sponser paramilitary a group brigade 2596 on April 17th, 1961. -
Creation of the berlin wall
on August 13th, 1961 the communist government of the German democratic republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete between east and west berlin. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Salt & Salt 2
Strategic Arms limitation talks between the USSR and the U.S.. They met on November of 1969 to make a treaty to end the arms race. -
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
lasted over 9 years. From December 25th 1999-Feb 15th 1989. Soviet army fought against insurgent groups. -
Fall of The Berlin wall
the Cold War began to spread across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
Fall of Communism in the USSR
The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.