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Cold War

By EmeDUri2257

  • USSR Test First Nuclear Bomb

    The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Drew the alliances that exist today
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American lif

  • Suez Crisis

    Was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    Began the space age
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The closest we ever came to a nuclear war

  • Russians Invade Afghanistan

    Fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s

  • Tiananmen Square Massacre

    Inspired protesters in the USSR. which lead to the collapse of the soviet union

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    The process of internal political, economic and ethnic disintegration within the USSR as an unintended result of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's effort of reform of the Soviet political.