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 * About The Cold War**

====The Cold War began after WWII. The main enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union (communist and non-communist). The Cold war got its name because both sides of the war were afraid of fighting each other directly and because it never led to armed or "hot" conflict. Nuclear weapons could destroy everything. So instead, they fought each other indirectly. They played havoc by making conflicts in different parts of the world. They also used words as weapons. They threatened each other. Or they tried to make each other look bad.====

=The Cuban missile crisis= This was between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviets. It is called the Cuban missile crisis in america and "October crisis" in Cuba. In september 1962. The Cuban and Soviet government put nuclear missiles in cuba. When the U.S.A found out about it we did everything to try to get them out. ( we didn't like the idea it was only 90 miles away from us). The tension became much higher on october 27 which was know as "Black Saturday". On the 14th of october we observed a missile navy base being made. 2 weeks later o the 28th we reached a agreement with the soviet that if they take out the missiles there will be a no invasion agreement.

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On October 4th 1957 the soviets successfully launched the sputnik. It was the world's first artificial satellite. Which was about the size of a beach ball It was 22.8 inch in diameter. It weighed about 184 pounds and took around 98 minutes to completely go around the earth on its elliptical path. This is what started the space race. On the 3rd of November the soviets launched Sputnik II. On January 31 1958 the U.S launched our Explore I.=====

Berlin Airdrop
The Berlin airdrop was an attempt to get much needed supplies to the Soviet sector of Berlin. Since the Soviets had blocked off all exits to their sector, the civilians could not go outside to farm or interact with anyone outside the Soviet sector of Berlin. The supplies were dropped out of the back of a C-54 airplane and landed in the streets and hills of the Soviets area. The Soviets were very unhappy about the other countries, who recently combined their sectors into one, dropping supplies into their land. They wanted the other countries to stay out of their land, that is why they had built the Berlin wall.

The wall was made on the 13 of August early Sunday morning. It was a desperate and effective move by the GDR(German Democratic Republic).
In 1961 thousands of people were leaving every day and rumors started about a wall which became real. Within 24 hours the streets where torn up and barricades were put up. The version of the wall that was in 1961 was not really a wall but more of a 96 barbed wire fence. work on it to make another one but up too 100 yards in started in 1962. In 195 a concrete wall was made which lasted tell 1975 when the Stützwandelement UL 12.11 was made. This was the final version of the wall which was made from 45,000 separate sections of reinforced concrete, each 3.6 m high and 1.5 m wide. About 5,000 people where able to reach the other side of the wall however in the 30 years the wall was up 100 people were shot and killed on spot the most well know one is a 18 year old Peter Fetcher, who, after he was hit in the hip, was left to bleed to death in no-man’s land as the world’s media watched on. November 9th, 1989 Gunter Schabowski, Minister of Propoganda, read out a note at a press conference said that the border would be opened for "private trips abroad”. This news spread very quickly. The German people immediately gathered in thousands by the checkpoints, demanding passage. There was some confusion as to what the official line was and the border guards, uncertain of what to do and ill-equipped to deal with the huge and unyielding mob, were forced to let them pass. The Wall had fallen. So time later people ended up taring down the wall.

=U-2 Incident= In 1960 a piloit was sent on a top secret mission to fly over and photograph denied territoy from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. He was shot down by a soviet missle on the morning of may 1 1960. In late 1954 president Eisenhower approved project AQUANTE. The plan was for the CIA to make a plane for a long range mission. When the plane was finished its max speed was .8 Mach and could fly at a altitued of 73,000 feet with a pay load of 450lbs.


 * Causes of The Cold War in 1945**
 * ====America's fear of a communist attack.====
 * ====Truman’s dislike of Stalin. (Stalin was a Russian leader who succeeded as head of the Communist Party).====
 * ====Russia’s fear of the American's atomic bomb.====
 * ====Russia disliking capitalism.====
 * ====America refused to share nuclear secrets.====
 * ====Russia’s fear of an American attack.====
 * ====Russia’s need for a secure western border.====
 * Russia’s goal of spreading world communism.


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**Sources**

 * http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/soviet_army.htm
 * http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/cold_war.htm
 * http://www.berlin-life.com/berlin/wall
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
 * http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/index.html
 * http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
 * http://www.coldwar.org/Articles/60s/u2_incident.asp