What are eighteen events that took place during the Cold War?

Question: What are eighteen events that took place during the Cold War!?

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A - Z COLD WAR GLOSSARY:

1!. Apollo-Soyuz - First manned space flight conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union during the era of detente!. On July 17, 1975, the U!.S!. Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz vessel docked for two days of joint operations!.

2!. Arms race - Competitive buildup of nuclear weapons between the United States and Soviet Union that began after the Soviets exploded their first atomic weapon on August 29, 1949 -- ending the U!.S!. nuclear monopoly!.

3!. Atlas - Developed in the 1960s, these intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were housed in deep underground concrete silos built to withstand a nuclear attack!.

4!. Baghdad Pact - Middle Eastern defense pact established in 1955 by Great Britain, Turkey and Iraq; would later include the United States, Iran and Pakistan!.

5!. Bay of Pigs - Landing area on Cuba's south coast where an American-organized invasion by Cuban exiles was defeated by Fidel Castro's government forces April 17-20, 1961!.

6!. Berlin airlift - Successful effort by the United States and Britain to ship by air 2!.3 million tons of supplies to the residents of the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin from June 1948 to May 1949, in response to a Soviet blockade of all land and canal routes to the divided city!.

7!. Checkpoint Charlie - Border site between East and West Berlin where U!.S!. and Soviet tanks faced each other in a tense standoff in October 1961 before both sides withdrew!.

8!. COMECON - Council for Mutual and Economic Cooperation, formed in 1949 as a Soviet version of an economic community!. Moscow's answer to the Marshall Plan!.

9!. Cuban Missile Crisis - Week of international tension in October 1962 when the world stood at the brink of nuclear war, after the Soviet Union placed nuclear weapons on Cuba and the United States responded with a blockade of the island on October 22!. The Soviets agreed six days later to withdraw the weapons!.

10!. Cultural Revolution - Mass campaign in China ordered by Mao Tse-tung in 1966, aimed at renewing popular support for revolutionary communism; the nation nearly fell into civil war as so-called bourgeois elements in cultural circles and the government were purged!.

11!. Detente - A thaw in Cold War relations between the United States and Soviet Union from 1969-1975, highlighted by the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) treaty and the Helsinki Accords!.

12!. Eisenhower Doctrine - Pledge by Eisenhower in 1957 to provide military and economic aid to any Middle Eastern country fighting communism!.

13!. FNLA - National Front for the Liberation of Angola, a U!.S!.-backed faction that fought against the Soviet-backed MPLA for control of Angola after the Portuguese withdrew in 1975!.

14!. Geneva Agreement - Signed by the Soviet Union, United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan in 1988, it called on the Soviets to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan by February 1989!.

15!. Geneva Conference on Indochina - Established a North and South Vietnam, with a border along the 17th parallel, following the defeat of French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu!.

16!. Helsinki Accords - Declaration signed in 1975 by the United States, Canada and every European nation except Albania, that postwar European borders were permanent and that the countries would respect their citizens' human rights and freedoms!.

17!. Hungarian Revolution - Mass uprising that began with reformist efforts by Hungarian Communist Party leader Imre Nagy; crushed by Soviet troops and tanks November 3-4, 1956!.

18!. McCarthyism - U!.S!. campaign to root out communists in government and society during the late 1940s and 1950s led by Sen!. Joseph McCarthy; accusations were often based on rumors and half-truths!.

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1!. The Korean War
2!. The firing of General Douglas MacArthur
3!. The death of Joseph Stalin
4!. The death of Winston Churchill
5!. The election of Harry S!. Truman
6!. The election of Dwight D!. Eisenhower
7!. The election of John F!. Kennedy
8!. The assasination of John F!. Kennedy
9!. The assasination of Martin Luther King
10!. The assasination of Robert F!. Kennedy
11!. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
12!. The War in Vietnam
13!. The Tet Offensive
14!. The Fall of Saigon
15!. The My Lai Massacre
16!. The Trial of the Chicago Seven
17!. I got my first driver's license!. (It was an event and it took place during the cold war!.)
18!. Nikita Kruschev and Bulganin vie for control of the Soviet Union
19!. The fall of the independence movement in Chzechoslovakia!.
20!. The Hungarian freedom fighters are defeated!.
21!. I kissed a girl for the first time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1!. missiles in cuba - early 1960s
2!. the u - 2 spy plane gary powers was flying was shot down by the soviets!.
3!. atomic bomb tests, which took place in nevada
4!. bay of pigs invasion - this operation took place in cuba and was fuded by the c!.i!.a!. - early 1960s
5!. attempted assasination of castro - early 1960s
6!. assasination of president john f!. kennedy - early 1960s
7!. assasnitation of robert kennedy - kennedy was running for president, at the time of his death - around 1968
8!. assasnitation of martin luther king - around 1968
9!. north koreans seized the spy ship, u!.s!.s!. pueblo
10!. the testing of lsd by the c!.i!.a!.
11!. the mccarthy hearings, which took place in the 1950s
12!. formation of the c!.i!.a!. - circa 1948
13!. domestic spying on u!.s!. citizans by the c!.i!.a!.
14!. the vietnam war (remeber the soviets, china and other communist nations aided north vietnam, during the war) and the fear of communist dommination in southeast asia
15!. john walker, former u!.s!. navy officer who became a spy for the soviets
16!. the berlin wall
17!. tjhe soviet invasion of czech!. republic
18!. those who though ww iii was imminent involve the u!.s!. and u!.s!.s!.r!.

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I dont know of 18 events, but i know of 1 were the russians thought that US had just fired a missile at them and that nearly unleashed ww3 (but it turned out to be something like like reflection off a base station), Another one were a passenger plane was flying over russian military airspace (and didnt identify itself) got shot down!. Thats all i know sorry, but i hope ive helped!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The stealing of the US nucleqr plans by ther Rosenbergs, thier later trial and executions 1956-1957!.Www@QuestionHome@Com