HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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The Berlin Airlift
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The Berlin Wall
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The Korean Conflisct
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin, which lay entirely inside Russian-occupied East Germany.
Detailed explanation-2: -On October 27, 1961, combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Armyś Checkpoint Charlie.
Detailed explanation-3: -On 26 June 1948, Western allies started a massive airlift to counter the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviet regime. The film, “Background to Berlin”, produced in 1962, explains how this happened.
Detailed explanation-4: -In June 1948 the Soviet Union, whose territory fully surrounded the capital, cut off all ground traffic into and out of West Berlin in an attempt to force the Allies to abandon the city. The blockade of Berlin had begun. President Truman suddenly faced a crisis.