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media type="file" key="royer cold war.mp3" Cold War
 * Post WWII
 * After World War II the U.S., France, Britain, and the USSR(Soviets/Russia) split Germany into 4 sectors for each of the countries, they also split Berlin, the capital of Germany into 4 sectors.
 * U.S., France, and Britain decided that they were going to merge together their sectors to have a whole western Germany
 * Berlin Blockade/Airlift
 * The USSR did not like the fact that there was going to be a Western Germany
 * The USSR set up a blockade on Western Berlin, cutting off all land and rail routes to the Western Sectors
 * Due to the Blockade of Western Berlin, the western sectors could not access Berlin. The people in Western Berlin were forced to use the reserve stocks for food
 * The Western Allies decided that they could fly in and drop off supplies, creating the airlift
 * U-2 incident
 * After the war President Eisenhower was nervous about the Soviet's development of Nuclear Weapons so he devised a plan for the CIA to run
 * The CIA was in charge to develop a long range spy plane
 * The CIA modified a CL-282 and came up with the U2
 * The test area was Groom Lake, a deserted area in Nevada
 * In July, 1956 the U2's under CIA started flying over Soviet territory
 * May 1, 1960 Francis Gary Powers, a pilot from the CIA, was on a top secret mission to fly over denied soviet territory and take photographs. His plane was shot down by soviet surface to air missiles
 * Sputnik
 * The satellite was launched on October 4, 1957. It was the size of a beach ball sent into space.
 * This is a Soviet satellite, with the successful launch of the sputnik meant they could also launch ballistic missiles
 * This marked the start of the space age
 * After the launch of the Soviet's satellite the Americans quickly issued a statement to do the same
 * On January 31, 1958 the U.S. successfully launched the Explorer I
 * Bay of Pigs
 * During the time of the election and inauguration of President Kennedy the CIA had a plan developed by the Eisenhower administration
 * The plan was to train Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland, because the US was distrust full of Fidel Castro and his ties with Nikita Khrushchev
 * Shortly after JFK's inauguration he authorized the invasion
 * The plan was to have 2 air strikes destroy the Cuban Air-force bases but these attacks failed to destroy the entire base
 * The Invasion was a failure and led to the capture of the brigade, almost 1200 troops were captured.
 * The troops were released on December 23, 1962
 * Cuban Missile Crisis
 * October 16, 1962 A U2 spy plane flying over Cuba spotted missile bases
 * October 20, President Kennedy decides to quarantine Cuba and starts preparing a speech to notify the American people
 * October 22, President Kennedy starts the Executive Committee of National Security Council to debrief and discuss plans during the crisis and is planed to meet everyday during the crisis
 * October 23, 1962 The US Naval Fleet in charge of the quarantine moves in place around Cuba
 * October 26, 1962 Khrushchev sends a letter to Kennedy making an offer to remove the missiles from Cuba if the US lifts the quarantine and pledges not to invade Cuba
 * October 27, Robert Kennedy meets with Ambassador Dobrynin and secretly discuss plans to have the UN oversee the removal of the missiles in Cuba, the US pledging not to invade Cuba and the US will eventually remove the Jupiter missiles from Turkey
 * October 28, 1962 The 13 days end with the Soviets agreeing to the conditions to remove missiles with the US pledging not to invade Cuba
 * Berlin Wall
 * August 13, 1961 The Berlin Wall's construction began
 * People were not able to pass from one side of Berlin to the other
 * In 1962 The East Germans built another barrier about 100 yards behind the first one creating a tightly-policed no-mans-land which claimed 263 peoples lives trying to flee to the West
 * The Wall came down in 1989

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