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Cold War
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Creation Of NATO and Warsaw Pact
the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War. -
Berlin Blockade/AirLift
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control, and first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Korean War
A war between North and South Korea, in which force led by the U.S. fought for the South to protect it against communism. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit. It was a polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. -
Bay of Pigs
Was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
Creation of Berlin Wall
The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
Vietnam War
Chinese and Soviet communism, Ho Chi Minh formed the Viet Minh, or the League for the Independence of Vietnam, to fight and Ho’s Viet Minh forces rose up immediately, seizing the northern city of Hanoi and declaring a Democratic Republic of Vietnam with Ho as president. -
Disarmament Argeements
the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction -
Solviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Insurgent groups who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Gorbachev's Reforms
profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations. Within five years, Gorbachev’s revolutionary program swept communist governments throughout Eastern Europe from power and brought an end to the Cold War
