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After WW2 the United Nations decided to divide Germany. The Soviet Union blocked railroads, roads, and water access. The U.S. and the United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin. -
The U.S. and 11 other Western nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division that had taken place since WW2. U.S. leaders introduced the Marshall Plan. -
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty making the Warsaw Pact. It is a mutual defense organization that had the Soviet Union in charge of the armed forces of the membered states. It included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. -
It was launched by the Soviet Union. It was originally launched to correspond with a solar period. The U.S. government, military, and scientists were caught off guard. -
After sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire. East Germany authorities began to build a wall to permanently close off access to the West. The Berlin Wall was constructed to divide Germany into four Allied occupation zones. -
It was a dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. An aircraft found pictures from an aircraft and were processed. When presented to the White House it started the Cuban Missile Crisis. It started with the Soviet Union building on the land of Cuba. -
He was the first man to be on the moon and his name was Neil Armstrong. The U.S. was still trailing the Soviet Union in space development. Aldrin joined him on the moon’s surface 19 minutes later. -
It started as a wall between East and West Berlin and the purpose was to keep the “fascists” from entering East Germany. Millions of people from East Berlin visited that wall. They used hammers and picks to knock away the chunks of the wall.