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World War 2 Ends
The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Allies took place in late April and early May 1945. U.S goods and services were 2 and a half times better after the war as well. -
The Berlin Air Lift
They divided up Germany after the war, East Germany was given to The Soviet Union and West Germany was given to France, Britain, and The U.S. Stalin blocked off entry and exit into and out of East Germany to convert the people living there to communism. The U.S opposed to this and sent air crafts with supplies to West Germany. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. It began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. -
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Space Race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals. The Soviet Union and the United States, compete for dominance in spaceflight capability. -
U-2 Reconnaissance Plane.
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba. it was undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group, it was an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, the socialist leader of Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the rural countryside -
Reagan Visits The Wall
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin. calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Reunited Germany
The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz Article 23
