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Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes. June 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949. The Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes. June 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949. The Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. -
Sputnik
Each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. The SU launched the satellite. The council adopted a resolution calling for artificial satellites to be launched during the IGY to map the Earth's surface. The Sputnik launch changed everything. As a technical achievement, Sputnik caught the world's attention and the American public off-guard. The outcome of sputnik was the space race, which culminated in the moon landing in 1969. -
Sputnik
Each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. The SU launched the satellite. The council adopted a resolution calling for artificial satellites to be launched during the IGY to map the Earth's surface. The Sputnik launch changed everything. As a technical achievement, Sputnik caught the world's attention and the American public off-guard. The outcome of sputnik was the space race, which culminated in the moon landing in 1969. -
Mutually Assured Destruction
- A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. It was fully declared in 1960. The US and the SU were involved in this policy. President Kennedy threatened a strike against the USSR if the missiles weren’t removed. After two tense weeks, the USSR relented. It was created to help the conflicts between the US and the SU.
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Mutually Assured Destruction
A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. It was fully declared in 1960. The US and the SU were involved in this policy. President Kennedy threatened a strike against the USSR if the missiles weren’t removed. After two tense weeks, the USSR relented. It was created to help the conflicts between the US and the SU. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. It was the closest that the world has ever come to apocalyptic nuclear war. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. It was the closest that the world has ever come to apocalyptic nuclear war. -
Berlin Wall
Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It was built by the government of what was then East Germany to keep East Berliners from defecting to the West. The first outcome was that people were no longer able to escape communism simply by leaving East Berlin and going to West Berlin. The second outcome was that communism was badly discredited. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba. Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty. -
Brinksmanship
- The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. During the Cold War, this was used as a policy by the United States to persuade the Soviet Union into backing down militarily. The best-documented case of brinkmanship was the Soviet placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 and the U.S. response, which is now referred to as the Cuban missile crisis.
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US Moon landing
On 16 July 1969, half a million people gathered near Cape Canaveral (then Cape Kennedy), Florida. Their attention was focused on three astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins, awaiting ignition of five clustered rocket engines to boost them toward the first lunar landing. Apollo, properly defined, helped explore the part of our own planet hidden by the oceans. -
9/11
September 11, 2001: the day on which Islamic terrorists, believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda network, hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon in Virginia: the fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. America's involvement in the War on Terror — prompted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks — resulted in changing attitudes and concerns about safety. -
War on Terror
The name given to the actions and other measures taken by the US, Britain, and other countries to destroy international terrorist groups, especially al-Qaeda after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The actions taken include the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The War on Terror started on October 2001. This made America be on guard to any suspicious terrorist activity.