The Cold War

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    Korean War

    The Korean War started on June 25, 1950 on Korean peninsula, the border at the 38th parallel between North and south Korea because of the competition going.
  • Launch Sputnik

    On October 4, 1957 the soviet union successfully launched sputnik which was the world first artificial satellite about the size of a beach ball.
  • Vietnam War

    During 1955 to 1975 the conflict that is pitted to the communist of the North Vietnam and its Southern allies.
  • Creation of Berlin Wall

    On August 13, 1961 The Berlin Wall was built by the Soviet Union to keep the other cities away during in August 13,1961 but was opened on 1998.
  • Bay of pigs Invasion

    On April 171961 the invasion didnt go well and the invades were bad out number by Castro troop. They had to surrender after less than 24 hours of fighting. It was over in November 1961
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    in October 1962 the soviet union put nuclear weapons on the island of Cuban that caused a lot of trouble between the turkeys and Italy
  • Salt 1 and Salt 2

    salt stands for(strategic Arms Limitation Talks) started an argument betweenthe sovie union and the United State of America in1991 while the salt II started an argument between the united states and Russia.
  • fall of the berlin wall

    the berlin was destroyed by demolition on November 9th 1989.
  • Fall Of Communism USSR

    On Christmas day 1991 the soviet flag flew over the kremlin in Moscow for the last time. the once mighty soviet union have fallen, largely due to the great number of the radical reforms that the soviet president Mikhail Gorbachew had implemented during his six year as the leader of the USSR and on December 25 Gorbachev resigned from his job.
  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    25 years ago the soviet union had pulled the last troop out. the Afghanistan troop and 14, 500 of the soviet union soldiers.