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Berlin Blockcade
The Soviet Union blocks off access to Germany's canals and railroads so help was unable to reach Germany -
The Marshall Plan in Action
President Henry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, granting five billion dollars to aid sixteen European countries -
Start of the Korean War
Soviet-controlled North Korea invades the Pro-Western South Korea, and the war begins -
The Warsaw Pact in Action
A document that called for military cooperation among the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and East Germany -
The Vietnam War Begins
After an invasion of the Soviet Union in northern Vietnam, the spread of communism sparks a war between the north and south -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A surprise invasion on the coast of Cuba gone wrong, ending up with the death of 114 American soldiers and 1,100 captured -
Building of the Berlin Wall
The Soviet Union begins construction of the Berlin Wall, a large barrier dividing Berlin so that Germans from the west couldn't flee east -
Start of Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union strategically places nuclear weapons in Cuba, which makes the US begin to panic frantically -
Removal of Missiles from Cuba
After negotiation between president Kennedy and Soviet leader Krushchev, the Soviet's more than worrisome missiles were removed from Cuba -
Downfall of the Berlin Wall
Both communism and the Berlin Wall are offically out of Germany that day