cold war
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- The Cold War also caused a competition involving technology between the Soviet union and the U.S. As the two nations worked against each other to achieve space supremacy. this space race started when a Soviet satellite by the name of Sputnik was launched into orbit using an intercontinental ballistic missile.
- Russians wanted Berlin for themselves to achieve that, they closed all highways, railroads and canals coming from western owned Germany into western owned Berlin. They thought it would make it impossible for citizens who lived there to get food and supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city. in return the US and their allies created a aircraft known as the “Berlin Airlift,” lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo to West Berlin.
- occurred on the 9th November 1989, five days following half a million people came together in East Berlin in a protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany destroyed. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by slightly opening the borders, making travel not as difficult for East Germans. They didn't intended to open the border up completely. The changes were supposed to be fairly minor. but the way they were delivered had major consequences.
- The thermonuclear bomb, also known as the hydrogen bomb, or the H-bomb, a weapon that has enormous explosive power that results from a uncontrolled self sustaining reaction where isotopes of hydrogen combine under very high temperatures to create helium in a process known as nuclear fusion. The high temperatures required for the reaction are produced by the detonation of an atomic bomb.
- during the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and an associated group of revolutionaries took over the ruling government of Fulgencio Batista, making Batista be out of power on January 1 1959. Castro, who had already been a very important figure in Cuban society, started to serve as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976.
- The Suez Crisis ended up being a international crisis in the Middle East, that began on July 26, 1956, when the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal. The canal owned by the Suez Canal Company, which was controlled by French and British interests.
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