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Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain speech ( offically named Sinews of Peace) was rto inform the public of a threat posed my Solviet Union -
Czechoslovakia becomes communist
before the solviets invaded, Edvard Beneš agreed with Joseph Stalin's to become a communist nation. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
First lightning
Russia tests thier first atomic bomb, it had about the same amount of power as the ones dropped in japan -
The Race
the nuclear arms race began after truman approved the H-Bomb, so then america was in the lead with the "super bomb" -
Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military
Kennedy requests 25% more spending for military use for the threat in west Berlin -
Berlin wall begins
construction on the berlin wall begins -
Cuban MIssle Crisis
A 13 stand off between Cuba, Solviet Russia and the USA trying to reslove the problem instead of having nuclear war -
SALT was signed
(Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) between American and the Solviet Union, was aimed at reducing the manufacturing of missles able to carry nuclear explosives. -
Berlin wall falls
Germany reopens the borders between the east and the west and the german people had taken down the wall
