1948 - 1960

• Korean War 1950-53

  divided at the 38th parallel.

  proxy war between communist north and capitalist south.
• 1949, start of the arms race - "Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)"
• 1957, Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2, carrying Laika, the dog

  1961, Yuri Gagarin sent into orbit

  1969, NASA send first men on the moon
• • 1949, creation of NATO
  • 1955, West Germany join NATO
  • 1955, creation of the Warsaw Pact
• Hungarian uprising 1956

  • protests against Stalinist Rakosi put Nagy into power, where he relaxed communist rule and reformed to leave the Warsaw Pact.
  • Nagy was put down and communist laws took place.
• U2 Incident 1960

  • US spy plane, Gary Powers was shot over the USSR, thirteen days before the Paris Peace Summit.