Cold war

• Proxy wars were conflicts in which the United States and the Soviet Union supported opposing sides, without directly engaging in military confrontation.
• The Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany during the Cold War.
• In response to the US's creation of NATO, the USSR created its own military alliance called the Warsaw Pact.
• The Warsaw Pact was a collective security treaty signed between eight communist states in Eastern Europe on May 14, 1955.
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international defense organization formed by Western countries following World War II.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major event that brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any other time during the Cold War.
• The Warsaw Pact was an agreement between Eastern European nations to support the Soviet Union's policies.
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an alliance formed by Western countries to counteract the spread of communism.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major event that occurred during the Cold War.
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was formed as an alliance against communism, with the US playing a significant role in shaping its policies.
• In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred when the US discovered that the USSR had installed missiles on Cuba, leading to a tense standoff between the two superpowers.
• The Berlin Wall was built by East Germany to prevent its citizens from escaping to West Berlin.
• The Korean War (1950-1953) was a proxy war between the Western bloc and the communist bloc.
• The Soviet Union was the first country to launch an artificial satellite into space, Sputnik.
• The Soviet domination of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II led to the formation of the Western bloc (NATO) in 1949.
• The Berlin Blockade (1948) and lift (1949) demonstrated the severity of tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
• The division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs after World War II, with the United States supporting Western Europe and the Soviet Union supporting Eastern Europe, further escalated tensions.
• The Korean War and the Vietnam War are examples of proxy wars during the Cold War.