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This was the first international blockage of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked off railways, roads, and canal access to the Western sector of Berlin so the Allies could not get supplies to its people or armies.
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The shipment of thousands of tons of supplies to the Western sector of Berlin by plane.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to bring North Atlantic countries to have an alliance against the Iron Curtain.
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This 58-page report was the protocal for nuclear war against the Soviet Union.
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The fighting between forces loyal to the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China.
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The Korean War was the communist North against the democratic South and dragged multiple outside counties into the fight.
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U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands after MacArthur made public statements which contradicted the administration's policies.
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The Warsaw Pact, formally knows at the Treaty of Friendship, was a union of all the Communist nations.
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The Soviets were the first nation to launch the first artificial satelitte into space and began the space race
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The Soviet Union threatened American land, Cuba, with the possibility of a missile war, This lasted for 13 days and kept the U.S on its toes.
