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Berlin Airlift
For 11 months Berlin was baracaded by the Soviet Union. Planes flew over in order to drop supplies, food, and other things needed to survive. On 24 June 1948 LeMay appointed Brigadier General Joseph Smith, headquarters commandant for USAFE at Camp Lindsey, as the Provisional Task Force Commander of the airlift. Smith h had no airlift experience. On June 24, 1948 Clay gave the order to launch Operation Vittles. The next -
Formation of Nato
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance , which was formed by the North Alantic Treaty.It is a system of defense where all memebers agreed to protect each other if any was attacked by an external force. NATO was just a political group until the Korean war energized the member nations and a military infrastructure was established under two US sumpreme commanders. NATO's goal was the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." -
Soviets Create and Test Nuclear Bomb
Named after Joseph Stalin, the Joe-1 was tested on Kazakhastan range and the first nuclear explosion for the Soviet Union. The U.S. believed that this was the first step for the Soviet Union and came earlier thanks to Klaus Fuchs, who told the Soviets about the Manhattan Project years before, -
The Korean War
The Korean war was a war between the Republic of Korea , which was South Korea, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , North Korea. The failure to hold free elections throughout the Korean Peninsula in 1948 deepened the division between the two sides; the North established military forces occupying the northern half.With both North Korea and South Korea sponsored by external powers, the Korean War was a proxy war. -
Rosenberg Spy Case
Accused of giving the Soviets the "blueprints" for the atomic bomb, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg blamed instead of Klaus Fuchs. They were executed on 19 June, 1953 thought to be Soviet spies.In 1995, the U.S. government released a series of decoded Soviet cables, codenamed VENONA, which confirmed that Julius acted as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets with Ethel's involvement.The other atomic spies who were caught by the FBI offered confessions. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states in Europe during the Cold War. The treaty was made from influence by the Soviet Union, The Soviet Union pushed for the Warsaw Pact in response to West Germany joining NATO. The Warsaw pact would help prevent a large invasion of Soviet Union territory. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that happened in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, starting November 1, 1955, ending with the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. This war was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries. The Viet Cong were a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist group led by the North,and fought as guerrillas war against the North Vietnamese -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American program to aid Europe with the U.S giving money support to help rebuild European economies after World War II in order to prevent the spread of Communism. The plan was going on for four years, staring in 1948. The U.S wanted to rebuild a war stricken Europe, increase trade, modernize industry and make Europe prosperous. -
The Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an failed military invasion of Cuba, orchestrated by the US. It was intended to overthrow Fidel Castro. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, worried at the direction which Castro's government was taking, gave $13 million to the CIA for their plan to overthrow Castro. Later, when he became president, John F. Kennedy was informed of the invasion plan and gave it his approval. The invasion was launched on April 16, but on April 20, it was defeated. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was made to stop the large amount of people fleeing from the East Berlin. Before the wall was put up, 3.5 million East Germans crossed over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin, from where they could then travel to West Germany and other western European countries. The wall existed from around 1961 to 1989, preventing almost all emigration from East Berlin to West Berlin, which is remarkable, since some five thousand people tried to cross over the wall, -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was a 13 day standoff between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other. It is one of the major events of the Cold War, and is the moment in which the Cold War came the closest to breaking out into nuclear conflict. In May 1962 Nikita Khrushchev proposed the idea of putting Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt. During a meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro that July, a secret agreement was reached -
Man on the Moon
The famous Space Race of the Cold War. We beat the Soviets on getting a man on the moon and the first to do so. JFK promised everyone that we would have a man on the moon by the end of the decade.Between 1957 and 1975, the Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, The Space Race involved pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, -
Fidel Castro, Power in Cuba
Dictator of Cuba, he established a marxist socialist state in Cuba.Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz wsa born August 13, 1926 is Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the Commander in Chief of the country's armed forces from 1959, and as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally ended on October 3, 1990.The date on which the Wall fell is commonly held to have been on November 9,1989 but the Wall was not torn down completely. Starting that day and and weeks that came, people would go the wall with sledgehammers, hammers and chisels to break off piece fors souvenirs, destroying large parts of it. On June 13, 1990, the official dismantling of the Wall began. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
On December 25, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. That same evening at 7:32 P.M. the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the Russian tricolor.
