learning Target
I can gather relevant information from multiple sources (primary and secondary) about the Cold War.
Red scare
1919-1920
It was the widespread fear that communism was going to take over because communist flags were being put up.
Chinese civil war
April 1927 – May 1, 1950. The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China
Berlin Airlift
1948-1949
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first big international crises of the Cold War. During the occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union, blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
Korean war
June 25,1950- July 27 1953
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States liberated Korea from imperial Japanese colonial control on 15 August 1945.
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Vietnam War
It was a Resistance war against america and it started on Nov 1, 1955 and lasted till Apr 30, 1975.
Suez crisis
1956-1957
the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the tripartite aggression in the Arab world and Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France.
Bay of pigs invasion
- april 17-april 19 1961
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure. Fidel Castro had been a concern to U.S. policymakers since he seized power in Cuba with a revolution in January 1959
Berlin wall construction
August 13, 1961
he Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically ideologically divided Berlin . it was made to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west.
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
Yom Kippur War
Began on Oct 6, 1973 and ended on Oct 24, 1973. hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, in 1967, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Soviet Afghanistan War
began on Dec 25, 1979 and ended on Feb 15, 1989. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. They put President Amin put to death and installed their own leader, President Babrak Karmal. Over the next several years the Soviet Army would battle with the Mujahideen.
Collapse of soviet union
Dec 25 1991, the Soviet flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier that day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state
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