Cold War TimeLine

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    Cold War Events

  • Berlin Blockade / Airlift

    Berlin Blockade / Airlift

    Lasted over a year.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Was a war between North and South Korea,in which a United States of American fought for the South,and China fought for the North,which was also assiisted by the Soviet Union.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Was direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam