cold war

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    it was a 1940’2 military operation.where they supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air .after the soviet union blocked the cities
  • Creation of  NATO

    Creation of NATO

    this is where United States, Canada, and many Western European nations created nato in 1949. they did it to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  • Creation of  Warsaw Pact

    Creation of Warsaw Pact

    this was when the Soviet Union,Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania signed a treaty.it was a collective defense treaty.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    this was the first earth satellite .it was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at Tyuratam in Kazakhstan.it shocked people it being the first man-made object to launch in space .
  • Construction of Berlin Wall

    Construction of Berlin Wall

    this was were the communist and democratic sides of berlin were separated.separated east and west .they were separated by a barbed wire and concrete wall.
  • Cuban Missile  Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    the soviet union started installing nuclear missiles in cuba.it was thirteen intense days. and many secret negotiations, the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missiles.
  • Moon landing

    Moon landing

    two men were launched into space.there names were neil armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin . armstrong became the first man to have walked on the moon.
  • Destruction of  Berlin Wall

    Destruction of Berlin Wall

    people in the east berlin gathered to a mass protest.there was a wall that was separating the east and west berlin.the wall that separated them crumbled .