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The brutal war that raged 60 years ago killed more than two million Koreans, separated thousands of families, and created the world's most heavily fortified border. -
The Warsaw pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in the 1955 and represented a Soviet counterweight to NATO. -
The war caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American Life. -
The Suez Crisis was an international crisis in the Middle East that was precipitated on July 26, 1956, when the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal. -
The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik and start of the space race. -
The U-2 spy incident increased the tension between the US and Soviet, which escalate the Cold War. -
The Cuban missile crisis was arguably the "hottest" point of the Cold War. It was the closest the world has come to war between the US and USSR, nuclear war and annihilation. -
The US supported Afghanistan, providing weapons, then leaving when the Soviets gave up. The US leaving without helping Afghanistan rebuild the devastation led to much resentment towards the US and eventually the rise of the Taliban. -
President Jimmy Carter announced that the United States was boycotting the Summer Olympics to be held in Moscow in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. The boycott resulted in just 80 countries competing in the Olympics, the fewest since 1956. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification. It symbolized the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the Cold War.