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Recent Event Highlights: Berlin Wall Falling, Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan, United States beats Soviet Union in Hockey, Berlin Wall, and 11 more...

Created by moswal01 on Apr 12, 2011

Last updated: 04/13/11 at 02:28 PM

• Berlin Wall Falling
  Nov 9, 1988

  the wall that divided east and west Berlin was torn down and some people say that was the end of the cold war.

• Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan
  Dec 24, 1979

• United States beats Soviet Union in Hockey
  Nov 22, 1979

  United States beats Soviet Union in semi-finals for Olympic hockey

• Space Race the Moon Landing
  Jul 20, 1969

  the space race was a race to get man made object out to space and freak out the other country to make them think we had nuclear weapons on the sattelite.

• Cubian Missile Crisis
  Oct 1962

  Soviet Union moved missiles into Cuba as a threat to the United States.

• Berlin Wall
  Aug 13, 1961

  wall that divided West Berlin (free) and East Berlin (communist)

• Bay of Pigs Invasion
  Apr 1961

  cubian Americans trained to ivade Cuba when they do it is a complete Failure and most men are killed and the rest are captured.

• U-2 Incident
  May 1, 1960

  spy plane flying over the Soviet Union was shot down and Soviet Union told the world and embaressed the United States.

• Sputnik
  Oct 4, 1957

  first man made object in space, artifical sattelite

• Hungarian Uprising
  1956

  Soviet Union invades United States Claim they will help but didn't.

• Khrushchev
  1953

  Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin died

• Korean War
  Jun 25, 1950

  Communist North Korea invades Republic South Korea then America backs Sk and push back to china then china backs NK and pushes back to a few mile from where the war began.

• Berlin airlift
  Jun 24, 1949

  we flew suppies into Berlin b ecause Soviet Union was trying to occupy the non communist half west berlin

• Iron Curtain Speech
  Mar 5, 1946

  speech Winston Churchill gave saying we need to get rid of communism

• Fidel Castro
  1945

  Communist Leader of Cuba.